text: lndividual rlghts and freedonssufflces for the protection of righEs of any group based on voluntary association. Eased on the Precedent of Apartheid lEself, there ls reason to bell.eve thet the deParlure ls deliberate. By seemlng to place indivldual and group riShts on the saDe footing, the possibllity is ral.sed of lnstLcutionallsing cheA/44/963 Enqlish Paqe9 dynamic programmes directed atbettereducation, healthservices, housing andsocialconditions forall. 11Though someofitsoundspositive. the abovecitedpassage ismerely astatement ofintentions whichmakesno commitment totheprinciples contained intheDeclarations. 5.1.0 Considering thatApartheid itself wasoriginally presented byitsauthors asbeinginthebestinterest ofallSouthAfricans, and takeninconjunction withtherejection ofmajority ruleandinsistence on "GroupRights". thecitedpassage isfarlessthanareliable 'guarantee thattheApartheid reg}meiscommitted tothedismantling ofApartheid andthecreation of3united, democratic andnon-racial SouthAfrica. ~aragraph 16.1intheHarare Dcclar~tion oftheOAUAd-Hoc Committee on Southern Africa ontheQuestion ofSouthAfrica). 5.2.0 Withregardtotheprinciple: "Allshallenjoyuniversally reco~nised humanrights, freedom andcivilliberties, protected underan entrenched BillofRights1t•(16.5HarareDeclaration oftheOAUAd-Hoc Committee onSouthern Africa ontheQuestion ofSouthAfrica). MrGerrit Viljoentinhis11chMay1990speechsaid:IIItisalready envisaged that cheplanned BillofHumanRights, besides protecting individual rights and freedoms, mayalsoprotect groupvalueslikelanguage, culture, religion, byupholding therightoftheindividual concerned toexercise those values andrightsinagroupcontext." Theemphasis theApartheid regime layson"GroupRightsUinthiscontext, represents ar<ldical andinsidious departure fromtheprovenassumption thatinforms aBillofRightsas universally understood andaccepted, namely, thattheprotection of individual rights andfreedomssuffices fortheprotection ofrightsof anygroupbasedonvoluntary association. Basedontheprecedent of Apartheid itself, thereisreasontobelieve thatthedeparture is deliberate. Byseeming toplaceindividual andgrouprights onthe samefooting tthepossibility israised of"institutionalising the I.•• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryN44/963 Etglish Page 10 ::;rr !3 Ehe foraaEion and pro!eccion of e:(c.Lusivis! groupings aod, there!orc, io racisD itself. This is cootrary ro Paragraph 16.5 of the HaraEe DeclaraEion of lhe oAU Ad-lloc Connittee on Souchern Afrlca ofl che questlon of South Africa and 3e of che Unj.ted Na!lons Consensus DecLaratlon on Apartheld aod 1ts Destlucti.ve Consequences in SouEheh Afrlca, l.lith respec! co lhe princiFle rhar: "Souch Afrlca shall have a liarare Declara!1on of lhe OAU Ad-Hoc CoE6i!!ee on Southern Afrlca on the question of SouEh Af!lca or 3f of Uolted Narlons Consensus DeclaEaclon on Apairheid and Ics Deslructlve Consequences io Southern Africa). Mr. Cerrit
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the principles of human rights and the potential for institutionalizing group rights, which raises concerns about the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The author seems to be analyzing the intentions behind a certain passage and its compatibility with international human rights declarations.