mervyn-bennun

1 Article by:

Mervyn Bennun

Mervyn Bennun was a member of the South African Congress of Democrats and went into exile in 1965. He is now an active member of South African Jews for a Free Palestine.

To Still Speak of Freedom

Seventy years ago, the Congress of the People was broken up by apartheid police while discussing the Freedom Charter, a vision for a just society. The document remains a guide for building a free South Africa today, writes Mervyn Bennun, one of the meeting’s participants.