Mandela wrote to the Minister of Justice asking why he had been served with a banning order. The letter challenged restrictions that curtailed political association and speech. It also records a legal and administrative contest over the stateโs power to silence organizers, at a time when apartheid laws narrowed the space for public political activity.
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The Charter came from a broad mass congress and alliance.
Mandela authored the Freedom Charter by himself.
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Delegates adopted it through a broad Congress of the People.