“WE NEED TO BE CLEAR, THE NDP IS NOT THE FREEDOM CHARTER. The NDP is not a strategy and tactics document of the ANC, and its not a guide book for national democratic revolution. It is rather a national program that  guides our action inside and outside of government”.

The deputy president of the centenarian political Goliath recently came out with guns officially blazing touching the flak leveled at the omnibus schedule outlining the 20/20 vision by the ruling party as its proposed twenty-year goal. Ramaphosa said unequivocally that the NDP is a product free from insinuated contradictions. For this reason, the document merits patriotic cooperation from every sector of our society.

No single citizen, no organization of national politics, no former president, no elder statesman is keen on the idea of espousing the charter of South Africa's FREEDOMS. Fair question: When will the time for the FREEDOM CHARTER come, and who should usher it in?

The break of the new dawn in South Africa was made possible by the now rejected Freedom Charter. In the preamble to the charter, "We, The People of South Africa," made it absolutely clear when we "declare[d] for all our country and the world to know, that South Africa belongs to all who leave in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people."

Today, the African National Congress is intent on moving away from this "will of the people". Safe to say, the ANC has lost its official "claim" to "authority". It then, should it continue in the three capitals of state organs, becomes the enemy of "We, the South African People".

If the National Development Plan will emphatically not fulfill the promises of the Kliptown Perspective, why the f*** does it hog the national debate? How long shall the South Africa People wait to build their "beloved country" along the lines of the charter? Who needs must face the proverbial music for three decades to secure for us our promised land? The list of whos and whys is perennially long.

When the still-born Freedom Charter was adopted as embodying the aspirations appropriate to the times, the representatives present were supposed to have love for their people and country, much so that this ultimate battle-cry was to spur them on, and to lead them to the resolution that "THESE FREEDOMS WE WILL FIGHT FOR, SIDE BY SIDE, THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES, UNTIL WE HAVE WON OUR LIBERTY".