Book Extract | Freedom was not given

11 Dec 2022

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Pages from Dear Comrade President, which is published by Penguin Random House. Photo: supplied

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Nzo explained to the new ANC think tank that it had to investigate constitutional proposals for the future, anticipate developments in southern Africa, and help ensure that the ANC was not caught off guard by the manoeuvring of “racist SA, the USA and Britain”, who were looking for a constitution “that entrenches the former positions of the oppressors … in such a way as to avoid a future South Africa envisaged in the Freedom Charter.

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