 To See a Video Presentation on this Article Click Here To Listen to an Audio Presentation on this Article Click Here To See a PowerPoint on this Article Click Here The First President of Zambia has Died Kenneth David Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, died 17 June 2021 aged 97. As he was Zambia’s first president, in office from 24 October 1964 to 2 November 1991, many are seeking to evaluate his legacy. The Family of Kaunda Kenneth Kaunda, or KK, as he was generally referred to, was born in Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), 28 April 1924. His wife, Betty, who he married in 1946, died in 2012. They had eight children. Before entering politics, KK was a teacher. He was the youngest of eight children. His father was Reverend David Kaunda, a Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, who was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi). A Humanist in Africa KK wrote in his book A Humanist in Africa, that he could never agree with the Calvinist religion of his parents who believed in the depravity of man. KK asserted that he believed in the “goodness of man”.  Socialist Humanism When he became president of Zambia, KK worked to promote socialist humanism as the ruling ideology of the country. Kaunda also used terms such as “Zambian Humanism” and “African Socialism”. One Party State After protests of corruption and vote rigging in the 1968 elections, Kaunda banned all political parties except UNIP (United National Independence Party). When there was a break away from UNIP by one of his members, Simon Kapwepwe, in 1972, to form the United Progressive Party, Kaunda moved to suppress it and changed the constitution to reduce Zambia to a one-party state. Dictatorship Thereafter Kenneth Kaunda was the sole candidate in future elections. All opposition was eliminated and a personality cult was built around Kenneth Kaunda. All internal dissention was suppressed, particularly in Western Zambia, in Loziland, formally known as Barotseland.  The Suppression of the Lozi in Western Zambia The Lozi king had requested Britain to make it a protectorate, with the stipulation that if the British ever left Northern Rhodesia, they would grant Loziland/Barotseland independence, separate from the rest of the country. The king of the Lozi was presented a black and gold British admiral’s uniform by King Edward VII in recognition of a treaty that have been signed between the Lozis and Queen Victoria. Unfortunately, however, the Lozi people were denied their independence and all attempts at self-determination by its peoples were suppressed by Kenneth Kaunda. KK suppressed the Lozi and placed Western Zambia under martial law. Making Zambia a Launching Pad for Revolutionary Insurgents KK was also famous for his hosting and active support of revolutionary guerilla movements aimed at overthrowing the neighbours of Zambia, including the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA targeting Portuguese West Africa (Angola), Frelimo, targeting Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), ZANU and ZAPU, targeting Rhodesia and SWAPO, targeting South West Africa (Namibia). Escalating Conflicts As vast quantities of Soviet weaponry poured into Zambia to equip these insurgents, pre-emptative strikes brought suffering and disruption of roads, railways and bridges in Zambia.  Murdering Canadian Tourists at Victoria Falls 16 May 1973, after KK had particularly worked up anti-white Rhodesian hysteria on state radio and TV, Zambian security forces shot two Canadian women dead across the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls. Christine Sinclair (20 years old) and Marion Drijber (19) both from Ontario, were tourists from Canada and it is not known what was done to deal with the individuals responsible. Aggressive Foreign Policy Kenneth Kaunda obtained sixteen MiG-21 jet fighter bombers from the Soviet Union. Kaunda pursued an aggressive foreign policy, promoting sanctions on Rhodesia (even while receiving electricity from the Rhodesian hydroelectric plant at Kariba). Hypocrisy and Counter Productive Economic Policies KK also campaigned for sanctions against South Africa (even while receiving vast benefits from South Africa including the maintenance of Zambian Airways and Zambian Railways. The migrant labourers from Zambia to South Africa also brought back hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of income to the failing economy of Zambia). Even when Zambians needed snake bite serum, it came from South Africa. Yet, while Zambians ate mielie-meal grown in the Orange Free State, Kenneth Kaunda ranted against South Africa and against anyone who sought to trade with South Africa.  In The Frontline of The Cold War During the Cold War, Kenneth Kaunda maintained open, close friendships with Marxist dictators such as Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, Fidel Castro of Cuba and with Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. Many of the streets of Lusaka were named after famous Marxist dictators, revolutionaries and terrorists. Autocratic Dictator of a One-Party State Kenneth Kaunda was autocratic. He personally appointed the Central Committee of UNIP. The Central Committee in turn nominated the sole candidate for the party presidency. Since all the members of the Central Committee had been appointed by Kaunda, he was always the sole candidate. All dissent was suppressed. Economic Collapse The media and industry was nationalized under Kaunda’s leadership and the economy collapsed. In Zambia at independence, one kwacha equalled one British pound. At the end of Kaunda’s reign, one pound equalled over 8,000 kwachas. At independence in 1964, you could buy a car for about K140. By the end of Kenneth Kaunda’s reign, a bottle of Coca-Cola could cost over 1,000 kwachas!  Bankrupting the Richest State in Central Africa The British left two Billion pounds in the state reserve bank at independence. It was not long before Kaunda’s socialist policies had bankrupted the country. Zambia became dependent on foreign aid and the importation of food. A Missionary Perspective on Zambia Under KK from Prison My first exposure to Zambia came on a mission in 1987 when I and three other Frontline missionaries were arrested for refusing to pay a bribe at Kazangulu Ferry. We travelled over pothole-ridden roads which had evidently not been maintained, or repaired, since independence 23 years before. We were imprisoned in filthy cells crawling with hoards of insects and myriads of cockroaches. The swarms of mosquitos soon brought us down with malaria. Those Who Profess Belief in the Goodness of Man Can Be Guilty of Inhumanity It was interesting that Kenneth Kaunda believed in “the goodness of man”, because much evil seems to be done by those who believe in the goodness of man. After a sleepless night in filthy cells in Livingstone, we were hooded, shackled, dragged at bayonet point and guided with rifle butts the over 580 km to Lusaka. There we were paraded through the streets and thrown into Lusaka Central Prison.  Contrasts with the Colonial Conditions The British built Lusaka Central Prison for 80 people. There were over 1,200 crammed in there by Kaunda’s government in 1987. When the British imprisoned Kaunda for nine months in Lusaka Central Prison back in 1955, he had a cell of his own, with a bed, sheets, desk, chair, couch, gramophone and three cooked meals a day brought to him. He also had electricity and plumbing as well as access to a library. Lusaka Central Prison When we were incarcerated in Lusaka Central Prison in 1987, there was no electricity, no plumbing, no sanitation and each cell had 55 to 65 prisoners crammed into 15 feet by 25 feet rooms. There was no air flow. The corrugated iron roofs made the heat stifling. The only ventilation came from a 1-foot square hole in the barred door. There were no beds or furniture. Prisoners simply had to lie on their side stacked in line like sardines. People died in the cells and were dragged out in the day time. The whole prison was a stinking disease factory. Disease and death were a constant reality in prison. We saw corpses being carried out of the cells. We were locked in our cells from sunset to sunrise, but were allowed to walk around the dirty, overcrowded yard during the daylight hours. Most Were Remand – Still Waiting for Their Day in Court Most of the prisoners were not convicts, but were remand, awaiting trial. Some claimed to be awaiting trial since 1984 and even before that.  Detained at the President’s Pleasure We were placed in cell eleven, the presidential detainee’s cell. In our cell were people literally from around the world. There was a tall Muslim from Timbuktu in Mali, a man from Zaire, another from Kenya and one from Zimbabwe. There was a young man from Malawi, accused of spying for South Africa. There was also a highly-educated engineer who used to be a major in the Zambian army. A 62-year-old Indian citizen was also in detention without trial. This father of five, was in jail in spite of being a millionaire, or maybe because of that. Officials were greedy for his mining company and so he sat in the presidential detainee cell. "Condemning the innocent or letting the wicked go, both are hateful to the Lord.” Proverbs 17:15 Detained Without Charge or Trial A young Black South African, Isaiah Moyo, had been jailed for 18 months. He was a truck-driver, with a wife and two children in Soweto. Isaiah had been framed by some ANC members(exiles) who owed him money. Rather than paying him back, it seemed to have been easier for them to accuse him of being a spy. No evidence was necessary at that time of the one-party dictatorship of Kaunda. Tortured Isaiah had been severely tortured at Lilayi Police Training Centre. He had been hung upside down with his head in a bucket of water whilst being sadistically beaten. He had been burnt with red-hot pokers and his body was covered with sores that swelled up with pus and burst. He had also been electrocuted.  Singing in the Cells We had good fellowship with this fine Christian and spent hours each day on our knees in fervent prayer and in Bible study with him. At nights we would sing Christian hymns together. One night when we sang “Amazing Grace”, we heard choruses of singing coming from several of the other cells. “The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison; He knows when we are denied the rights He gave us; When justice is perverted in court, He knows.” Lamentations 3:34-36 Interrogation Over the next two weeks incarcerated in this grossly overcrowded Lusaka Central Prison I went through 6 intense interrogations by officials of the Zambian Special Branch, Military Intelligence and the President’s Office. Prayer and Pressure Mobilised Internationally Thankfully, prayer and pressure was being mobilized worldwide on our behalf. Over a thousand calls were made to the Zambian embassy in Washington D.C. by concerned Christian supporters of our Mission. Representations were made to the Zambian embassy personally by related missions protesting our detentions. Over five hundred letters were sent to the British Foreign Office in London and the issue was taken to the Vancouver Commonwealth Conference and personally raised with the Zambian president by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  The Iron Lady Intervenes Friends of ours ensured that the British Prime Minister was informed of our plight just before her departure for the Commonwealth Conference in Canada (13-17 October, 1987). There, Zambian dictator, Kenneth Kaunda, chairman of the Frontline States, subjected Margaret Thatcher to haranguing over Britain refusing to place economic sanctions on South Africa. Margaret Thatcher Confront Kaunda Margaret Thatcher responded by asking why Zambia did not herself place sanctions on South Africa? KK responded that, that would place many people out of work. "Exactly", responded the Margaret Thatcher, "and as South Africa is one of our most important trading partners, many British citizens would be placed out of work if I were to impose sanctions on South Africa. Quite aside from the many South Africans themselves who would be placed out of work." Exposing Double Standards Margaret Thatcher then went on to relate how Zambians were dependent on South African maize grown in the Orange Free State, how Zambian Airways was maintained by South African Airways, how Zambian Railways was maintained by South African Railways, how South African veterinarians cared for Zambia’s cattle and how many Zambians were migrant workers in South Africa and a vital part of Zambia’s ailing economy.  The Iron Lady Silences Kaunda and Secures Our Release KK then declared that because of South Africa’s human rights abuses, Britain should impose sanctions. It was at this point that Margaret Thatcher produced our information. "Who are you to speak about human rights abuses? You are the unelected dictator of a one-party state!" She challenged Kaunda. Four British missionaries are being held, without trial, as presidential detainees, in your overcrowded Lusaka Central Prison, tortured and abused by your own security forces! Kaunda was dumbstruck and humiliated. He ordered our immediate release. Overwhelming Opposition Forces Kaunda From Power By 1987 Zambia had the second highest debt of any nation in the world relative to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Rising opposition forced KK to allow a multi-party election in September,1991. Despite complete control of the mass media and massive propaganda campaigns, Kaunda’s UNIP was delivered a crushing defeat. Frederick Chiluba’s Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) won in a landslide with 75% of the vote. The Movement for Multi- Party Democracy The new president, Frederick Chiluba, had also been imprisoned in Lusaka Central Prison. His Vice President and later Minister of Education, General Godfrey Miyanda, became a friend of ours as a result of his incarceration in Lusaka Central Prison as a presidential detainee. It was General Miyanda who encouraged me to write the book Biblical Principles for Africa.  From Communism to Christianity Since 1991 I have been frequently invited to minister in churches and conferences, on radio and television throughout Zambia. The transformation from Kaunda’s socialist dictatorship to the free market, multi-party democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of religion of the MMD government was dramatic. President Chiluba committed Zambia to becoming a Christian country and entered an amendment to the constitution to that effect. Abortion was banned. Pornography prohibited. The Bible returned to the school classrooms. Chaplains replaced political officers in the armed forces. National days of prayer and repentance and thanksgiving were observed. Separating Myth from Reality in Eulogies for Dictators At this time, while many will seek to sing the praises of the previous dictator Kenneth Kaunda, some thought needs to be given for the long-suffering people of Zambia who endured 26 years of Kaunda’s misrule and oppression and the many victims of his autocratic rule. Remember the Many Victims One should also remember the many civilians killed by Marxist revolutionary terrorists hosted and supported by Kenneth Kaunda for their incursions into Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia, South West Africa and South Africa. We All Have an Appointment It should also remind us that it is appointed unto man once to die and after that to face Judgement (Hebrews 9:27). Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father.  When Will You Bow to Christ?
The question is not whether we will bow to Christ, but when we will bow to Christ. We can bow to Christ as Saviour and Lord today, in the day of grace, when the gates to Salvation are wide open. Or we can bow on the Day of Judgement, when the door to Heaven is firmly closed, when the day of grace is ended, to the eternal Judge. Is Jesus Your Saviour or Your Judge? Is Jesus Christ your Saviour and Lord? Or is He your eternal Judge? Dr. Peter Hammond Frontline Fellowship P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Tel: 021-689-4480 mission@frontline.org.za www.FrontlineMissionSA.org www.ReformationSA.org See also: Frontline Team Jailed in Zambia Reformation in Zambia Reformation Report from Zambia Police, Preachers and Perseverance Other Articles on Zambia
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 To view this presentation as a PowerPoint with pictures, click here. To view this presentation as a video, click here. To listen to the audio of this message, click here. Truth Does Not Fear Investigation A Republic of China (Free China – Taiwan) military intelligence officer observed that they pay far more attention to what is deleted than what is reported. This is quite insightful. Cancel Culture’s War Against Civilization Truth does not fear investigation. Yet in this era of political correctness, the Cancel Culture movement has promoted damaging, destroying and removing monuments, renaming streets and suburbs, deleting videos and removing articles, disinviting speakers, de-platforming people and movements and banning, boycotting, blacklisting, or even burning, books and whole libraries. All of this is the opposite of free speech and debate.  Truth is The New “Hate Speech” Truth is hate for those who hate the Truth. The rising tide of intimidation and intolerance is leading to something akin to a new inquisition. Views and news which do not line up with the official narrative are routinely prohibited and those who contradict the prevailing PC propaganda are punished. The New Inquisition It is not only history being destroyed, but lives as well. Students are being penalized, teachers punished and professors have lost their jobs for expressing such simple sentiments as: “There are only two genders”, or “Marriage can only be between a man and a woman”. Rise of The Thought Police Free speech is being censored by so called fact checkers who do nothing of the sort. It is not facts that are being checked, but facts that are being banned and blacklisted. The so-called fact checkers/censors of today were well described by George Orwell in his dystopian novel, 1984.  Vapourised – Down The Memory Hole First published in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 warns of the Ministry of Truth (Minitruth) who would vaporize, or expunge, from the public record, opponents of the state/party which could not be debated with, or argued, against. These would become “unpersons” who would disappear “down the memory hole”. War Against History Every monument would need to be replaced, every street name changed. History itself would need to be rewritten, in order to accord with the current policy of the ruling political party. So that there would only be an endless present where “The Party is always right!” Karl Marx declared that “the first battlefield is the rewriting of history”. Sinister Suppression of Free Speech Today, the sinister suppression of free speech, manipulation of language and intimidation of the population is becoming a real factor in everyday life. To silence opposition and to prevent free and open discussion fact checkers and the Cancel Culture PC movement are seeking to eradicate alternative opinions and eliminate challenges to the “politically correct” propaganda narrative. Well researched documentaries such as Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Virus were deleted and dismissed as false by “fact checkers”, yet it has been proven accurate by developments since. The virus was man made and it originated in the laboratory in Wuhan, China.  The Power of the Press Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned of the power of the press within Western countries becoming “more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. …according to what authority has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who granted western journalists their power?” Why The Conformity? Solzhenitsyn also questioned why it is that the “free press” in the West echoes the same united narrative that the one-party dictatorships enforced on the press in the East, behind the Iron Curtain? “Enormous freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership because newspapers mostly give stress and emphasis to those opinions which do not openly contradict their own and the general trend.” Disinformation and Deception are Dangerous “In the West fashionable trends of thoughts and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable…there is a dangerous tendency to form a herd…this gives birth to strong mass prejudices, blindness, which is most dangerous in our dynamic era. …it works as a sort of petrified armour around people’s minds.”  Contorted to Conform Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlo’s Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption details the deception mass media uses to contort every story to fit their fixed agenda. Anything that can be politicized, will be politicized. Good news is defined as news that advances the agenda. These usually appear on the front page of the newspaper. While bad news, that is news that does not advance the left’s desired narrative, is buried deep within the paper, if it is even mentioned at all. Heroes of The Media An article’s hero would be anyone who advances the causes of globalism, wokeness, skepticism and the leftist, secular humanist agenda. Additional hero points are added, or subtracted, depending on the individual’s race, sex, sexual orientation and/or socio-economic status. Villains of The Media An article’s villain is typically one who stands for Biblical, Christian, conservative, pro-life, pro-family values. Heroes do not need to be actual heroes, they can simply be victims. Heroes are depicted with glamorous, flattering photographs where possible. Villains receive unflattering photographs, or none at all. Dealing With Errors and Corrections Errors are acceptable, so long as they do not hurt the cause of globalism, or secular humanist wokeness. If any corrections need to be published, they will be done discreetly, buried deep within the paper, if at all.  Concealing Corruption and Treachery Politicians lie. Proof of this is seeing in how embarrassing facts are sealed in the name of national security for decades, or even a century. The Soviet war crime of the Katyn Forest Massacres in 1940 was suppressed for 70 years. Operation Keelhaul, the forced repatriation of over three million Russians, Ukrainians and other East Europeans by British and American Forces into the hands of the Soviet NKVD secret police, in accordance with the Yalta Conference Agreement between Stalin, Churchill and F.D. Roosevelt, was sealed for 30 years. Lies About The Lusitania The files concerning the sinking of the Lusitania (7 May 1915) were sealed for 60 years! The deceit, intrigues, treachery and cold blooded, callous disregard for lives, law or truth involved in this scheme to bring the United States into the war on the Allied side are shocking and explain why both the British and the American governments kept the ugly facts away from the public record for over 6 decades. The Lusitania was carrying contraband, millions of rounds of ammunition and artillery shells and it was the explosives it was transporting that blew up and sank the ship in just 18 minutes. Ultra Deception When the GCHQ Enigma, Ultra secret code breaking history was finally unsealed after 60 years it revealed a pattern of deception that, as Max Hastings wrote in The Secret War, requires every history book and documentary on the Second World War to be rewritten in the light of the previously suppressed facts. Early in the war GCHQ cracked the German Enigma codes and was able to read their orders, reports, plans and deployments ahead of time.  Suppressing History President Herbert Hoover’s block buster book: Freedom Betrayed, was suppressed until 2011. America’s 31st President, Herbert Hoover, exhaustively documents the deliberate deceit and treacherous policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in conspiring to save Starlin’s Soviet Union and drag their countries into a ruinous War which betrayed 15 countries and over 100,000,000 Christians into the hands of Stalin’s Soviet communism. Silencing The Attempted Peacemaker The interrogation files on Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, are still sealed 80 years since his historic 1941 flight to Scotland to negotiate peace and an end of the war between Britain and Germany. Protecting The Propaganda Narrative The Warren Commission files on the President John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 are sealed for over 75 years, only to be made accessible to the public in the 2039. What Are They Hiding? The FBI files on Martin Luther King are sealed until 2027. Suppressing Inconvenient Facts Police enquiry files on the horrific Dunblane Massacre are sealed for 100 years.  When Public Servants Lie To The Public When politicians decide to withhold from the public access to files on famous people and pivotal events in history, we must know that we are being lied to. Facts are not suppressed, sealed, destroyed and hidden in order to protect the truth. Facts are hidden to protect lies, propaganda and the reputation of war criminals. Removing Ascension Day From The Calendar Among the first acts of the ANC government in South Africa was to abolish prayer in parliament and to cancel Ascension Day as a public holiday. That is very significant because the Ascension deals with authority. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, ascended into Heaven, reigning on high, King of kings and Lord of lords. He is above every power, principality and authority on earth. He will come again to Judge the living and the dead. It is understandable that secular, humanist Marxists do not want to acknowledge the authority of Christ, or His Great Commission. Dumping, Deleting, Pulping And Incinerating History Similarly, the ANC government literally had tens of thousands of history book removed from public library shelves and sent to be either pulped, or incinerated.  Libraries Devastated By Fire During the recent Wildfires in Cape Town, the 1.2 million volume Jagger Library in the University of Cape Town was gutted by a fire within the stone building. Even though the perimeter of University of Cape Town was not breached by the wildfire we are expected to believe that the gutting of this extremely valuable library was somehow connected to a bush fire which did not even breach the trees, or perimeter buildings, of the University campus. Several libraries in the country have been damaged by fires. Truth Conquers Professor Jan Hus, Rector of Prague University and Reformer, declared: “Vincit Omnia Veritas” – Truth Conquers All. After he was condemned to be burned at the stake by a trumped up, illegal trial that violated the safe conduct he had been guaranteed by the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Jan Hus observed: You can burn my books. You can burn me. But you cannot burn the Truth. Truth conquers all. Our Lord Jesus Christ declared: “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 Dr. Peter Hammond
Reformation Society P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa mission@frontline.org.za FrontlineMissionSA.org www.LivingstoneFellowship.co.za www.ReformationSA.org HMSSchoolofChristianJournalism.org See also: Libraries are Gyms for The Mind Weaponising Words and Toxic Terminology PsyWar, Gaslighting and Stocholm Syndrome Standing for Truth in a Fake World Propaganda Changes Perceptions and People The Battle for The Mind in The News Media KGB Active Measures, Disinformation and Subversion  To view this presentation as a PowerPoint with pictures, click here. To view this presentation as a video, click here. To listen to the audio of this message, click here. The right to self-determination is specifically mentioned in the South African Constitution (S.235). It is guaranteed by international law, eg: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the African Union Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, and the United Nations Charter, to all of which the Republic of South Africa is a signatory. Here are some of the legal documents recognising the intrinsic right to self-determination:  Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Chapter 14. Section 235. Recognises and Guarantees “…the right of self-determination of any community sharing a common cultural and language heritage, within a territorial entity in the Republic …”
 United Nations Charter 1945 Chapter I: Purposes and Principles, Article 1 The Purposes of the United Nations are: 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace United Nations  Self Determination: Principle & The Law Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), 14 December 1960: Declaration 2. All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right, they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 5. Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 U.N.T.S. 171, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976. PART I Article I 1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence. 3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations  African Union (AU) Charter African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Self Determination, Article 20 1. All peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self- determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen. 2. Colonized or oppressed peoples shall have the right to free themselves from the bonds of domination by resorting to any means recognized by the international community. 3. All peoples shall have the right to the assistance of the States parties to the present Charter in their liberation struggle against foreign domination, be it political, economic or cultural. In summary, Self-determination is recognised by:
 There are also other elements to self-determination which even further strengthen the case for independence. One is that if a country was formed through a union of previously autonomous states there is a higher propensity for those states to reclaim independence:
 All over the world territories are choosing self-determination.
The (Brexit) referendum taken by the British people to be independent from the European Union is another example of this emerging movement of decentralisation and independence. There are numerous other nations preparing for secession. Free the Cape! CapeXit! See also: Secession in the Bible and in History Eyewitness to Successful Secession A Case for Cape Independence The Cape of Good Hope for the Future Cape Independence Handbook The Cape of Good Hope |
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