The Land Shall Be Shared Among Those Who Work It!

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"The Land Shall Be Shared Among Those Who Work It!" is a key clause of South Africa’s Freedom Charter that demands equitable land redistribution and ownership for those who labor on it, challenging apartheid-era dispossession.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf clause of the Freedom Charter
land reform principle
political slogan
advocatesFor ending forced removals
land redistribution to those who work the land
security of tenure for farm workers
associatedWith African National Congress NERFINISHED
Congress of the People (1955) NERFINISHED
anti-apartheid movement NERFINISHED
country South Africa
dateFormulated 1955
documentSection land clause of the Freedom Charter
documentTypeContext charter of demands
formulatedAt Congress of the People (Kliptown) NERFINISHED
hasForm declarative statement
historicalContext apartheid South Africa NERFINISHED
ideology African nationalism
anti-colonialism
democratic socialism
influenced South African constitutional discourse on land
post-apartheid land reform debates in South Africa
language English
moralPrinciple those who labor on land should benefit from it
opposes apartheid-era land dispossession
racially exclusive land ownership
partOf Freedom Charter NERFINISHED
politicalGoal dismantling racial patterns of land ownership
redistribution of agricultural land
restoration of land to dispossessed communities
region southern Africa NERFINISHED
rightsConcerned economic rights
land rights
property rights
symbolizes reversal of colonial land dispossession
struggle for land justice in South Africa
targetGroup black South African rural communities
farm workers
landless peasants
theme agrarian justice
anti-dispossession
economic justice
equitable land redistribution
land ownership
usedBy liberation movements in South Africa
usedIn political education in anti-apartheid struggle

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Freedom Charter section The Land Shall Be Shared Among Those Who Work It!