Non-racialism

Non-Racialism is an ideology rejecting racism and racialism while affirming liberal democratic ideals.

It became the official state policy of South Africa after April 1994, and it is enshrined in Chapter One of the Constitution of South Africa. It was also a prominent concept in the 1955 Freedom Charter.

The term has been criticized as vague, and carrying different meanings even among people sharing the same ideological tradition.

The earliest use of the term was by Karl Polanyi in the 1930s.Neville Alexander defines non-racialism as the acknowledgement of the nonexistence of race as a scientific fact.Robert Mugabe professed a belief in non-racialism in the early 1960s, but later rejected the concept and harshly criticized Nelson Mandela for his embrace of the ideology.

Non-Racialism is a core policy of the African National Congress. Power struggles between supporters of non-racialism and a black nationalist minority within the party led to establishment of the breakaway Pan Africanist Congress in 1959.

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