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Books: A good man in South Africa Memory Against Forgetting by Rusty Bernstein
2000
Overview
RUSTY BERNSTEIN was a talented member of that small, heroic band of white South Africans who, for 30 years, fought alongside black South Africans against a minority, racist regime. To do so took enormous courage and self-sacrifice, but also intelligence and skill. An indefatigable writer of pamphlets and policy statements, Bernstein was delegated in 1956 to draft the Freedom Charter, a key ANC policy document, by making a painstaking synthesis of the submissions received from ordinary black South Africans. Written on scraps torn from school exercise books and old envelopes, these offerings expressed the aspirations of the country's disenfranchised majority, covering land reform, education, employment, civil rights, family life and electoral hopes. Bernstein wrote the rousing preamble and conclusion which commits the ANC firmly to non-racialism. Its assertion that `South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white' ran counter to the pan-Africanist slogan `Africa for the Africans' and became unexpectedly controversial.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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