Attachment 19: The right to self determination
In considering the right to self-determination inside the borders of the Republic of South Africa, at a fundamental level, it distills down to simple truth, as always.
The reality is that there is simply no basis in historical truth that justifies South Africa’s current configuration other than political convenience.
This region was NEVER occupied by one homogeneous people. Its current make-up and borders were set in the cause of invasion and subjugation.
Whereas that invasion and subjugation is rejected, on the one hand, the configuration and borders are accepted on the other. The configuration and acceptance of these borders is convenient hypocrisy in very fundamental form.
The reason for the enforcement of the present borders is political expediency by those who were seeking the transfer of authority and power. One of the results hereof concerns the Khoi San - the original inhabitants of most of this geographical region – which is VERY INCONVENIENT indeed to the present government in South Africa indeed.
Our reference to Self Determination relates to the self-governance of nation-states, also classed as national sovereignty, as discussed in Footnote 1 – National Sovereignty verses Self-Governance.
The right to self-determination is the right for the people of a community to choose their identity. An identity pivots on your moral values, standard of living and social integration.
The right to self determination does not only involve an area in which a community with a common culture and develop and enjoy economic and other forms of independence, but also allows for freedom of association.
The right to self-determination existed in southern Africa until such time that the land was annexed by the Crown to form the Union of South Africa
The reality is that there is simply no basis in historical truth that justifies South Africa’s current configuration other than political convenience.
This region was NEVER occupied by one homogeneous people. Its current make-up and borders were set in the cause of invasion and subjugation.
Whereas that invasion and subjugation is rejected, on the one hand, the configuration and borders are accepted on the other. The configuration and acceptance of these borders is convenient hypocrisy in very fundamental form.
The reason for the enforcement of the present borders is political expediency by those who were seeking the transfer of authority and power. One of the results hereof concerns the Khoi San - the original inhabitants of most of this geographical region – which is VERY INCONVENIENT indeed to the present government in South Africa indeed.
Our reference to Self Determination relates to the self-governance of nation-states, also classed as national sovereignty, as discussed in Footnote 1 – National Sovereignty verses Self-Governance.
The right to self-determination is the right for the people of a community to choose their identity. An identity pivots on your moral values, standard of living and social integration.
The right to self determination does not only involve an area in which a community with a common culture and develop and enjoy economic and other forms of independence, but also allows for freedom of association.
The right to self-determination existed in southern Africa until such time that the land was annexed by the Crown to form the Union of South Africa
Index to Attachment 19, extract from Bundle 8
Attachment 19 document, extract from Bundle 8
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