Non-racialism,aracialism orantiracialism is a South African ideology rejectingracism and "racialism" while affirmingliberal democratic ideals.[1]
Non-racialism became the official state policy ofSouth Africa after April 1994,[1] and it is enshrined inChapter One of the Constitution of South Africa. The term has been criticized as vague, and carrying different meanings even among people sharing the same ideological tradition.[2]
The earliest use of the term was byKarl Polanyi in the 1930s.[3]Neville Alexander followsRobert Sobukwe in defining non-racialism as the acknowledgement of the nonexistence of race as a scientific fact.[4]Robert Mugabe professed a belief in non-racialism in the early 1960s, but later rejected the concept and harshly criticizedNelson Mandela for his embrace of the ideology.[5]
Non-racialism is a stated core policy of theAfrican National Congress; however, the adoption of multiracialist policy in the Freedom Charter instead ofAfrocentric non-racialism is what resulted in the breakawayPan Africanist Congress of Azania in 1959.[6]
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