text: alia,thefollowing aims••••••" anewdemocr~tic constitution; universal franchise; nodomination; equality before anindependent judiciary; the protection ofminority aswellasofindividual rights; freedom ofr~ligion; asoundeconomy basedonproven economic principles andprivate enterprise; I ••• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/ 44/963 EagLish Page 9 dynanic prggraMres directed at better educaiion, health services, housing and social condlti.ons for al1." Though some of if sounds positive, the above cLted passage ls nerely a stacenent of tntentlons whLch rnakes no conunilnen! to the principles con!ained in the Declarations. 5.1.0 Cortsidering that Apartheid itself 'ras origioally presented by its authors as beinB irl the best incerest of all South Africans, and tiken in conjunction erirh the rejection of majority rule and lnslscence on ''Group Rights", che cLEed passage is far less than a rellable'gu4raolee that lhe Aparcheld regine is comnitted to the dlsmantllng of Aparcheid and lhe creallon of a unlted, democratlc and non-raclal South Afrlca, (ParagraPh L6.l in the Harare occLaration of the OAU Ad-tloc Conmittee on Souchern AfrLca on the Questlon of South Afrtca ). 5.2.0 with regard t.o the prlnclple: "AIl shall enioy unlversally recognised hunan rlghEs, freedon and civil liberties, protected under an entrenched 8111 of Rlghts". (I6.5 Harare DeclaraElon of che OAU Ad-Hoc ComEittee on Souchern Afrlca on the Question of Souch Afrlca). Mr Cerrit Viljoen' ln hj,s lllh May 1990 speech sald: "It 1s already enviseged that the planned Bill of Human Righcs, besldes protecting indlvldual righrs 3nd freedoos, nay also protecc group values 1lhe Language, cdlture' rellglon' by uphglding lhe rlght of lhe lndlvldual conc.erned to exerclse those vaLues aod r18hcs in a group context.'r The emphasls the AParcheld reglme lays on "Group Rightsrr ln this contcxt, represents a radl.cal and lnsldlous departure fron the proven assurnpclon that infon|s a B11l of Righls as universally understood and accepted, nahely, that the pEotectlon of
analysis: The text appears to be a critique of the apartheid regime in South Africa, focusing on the principles of democracy, human rights, and the protection of individual and group rights. The language used suggests a broader focus on the social and political context of the country, rather than specific economic or environmental issues.