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SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki pledged Sunday to fulfill the dream of a united South Africa as it was set out in a charter drafted by his anti-apartheid movement-turned-governing party 50 years ago.
The Freedom Charter adopted by the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups at a gathering on June 26, 1955, inspired generations in the struggle against white-minority rule and established principles for the constitution drafted after apartheid's end in 1994.
"Central to that vision is the course on which the Freedom Charter set our country when it said 'South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white,'" Mbeki told some 20,000 people gathered to celebrate the anniversary, the South African Press Association reported.
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