ances. The charter started with the ringing assertion that "South Africa
belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can
justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people." It then set
out a list of basic rights and freedoms, derived largely from ideas then
current in liberal circles in Britain, continental Europe, and the United
States: equality before the law; freedom of movement, assembly, religion,
speech, and the press; the right to vote and to work, with equal pay for
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