Abstract

The Spirit of Bandung and the struggle for freedom in South Africa This paper analyses the work of a conference that took place in April 1955 at Bandung, Central Jawa, Indonesia. The conference was and is still an important event in the lives of the oppressed people. Representatives came from 29 African and Asian underdeveloped countries. They came to promote economic and cultural co-operation and to oppose colonialism. Most of the Afro-Asian and international conflicts were on the agenda. The conference finally agreed on 10 principles as an orientation for the formation of their mutual internal relationships, which includes respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations, equality of all races and all nations, mutual agreement on non-intervention into internal affairs and non-violent conflict solutions. This paper seeks to evaluate the work on Bandung and suggests a way forward to the 50th anniversary of the conference that will take place in 2005.

Highlights

  • Bandung was a milestone on the road towards the non-aligned Nations Movement, in the changing geopolitical conjunction caused by conflict ideologies represented by the two blocks that emerged after the Second World War

  • The political importance of Bandung is that it indicated and started an independent road for smaller and even for bigger new nations to survive as nations during the forthcoming four decades of the bi-polar global supremacy of the USSR and the USA

  • Fifty years later the Afro-Asian countries are faced with the same issues of colonialism, oppression, rejection, and isolation by super powerful countries

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INTRODUCTION

Bandung was a milestone on the road towards the non-aligned Nations Movement, in the changing geopolitical conjunction caused by conflict ideologies represented by the two blocks that emerged after the Second World War. The initiators of “Bandung” had anticipated the impact of such a competition on the newly emerging nations who might have been devastated, because they would have been caught in the middle of conflicts. The political importance of Bandung is that it indicated and started an independent road for smaller and even for bigger new nations to survive as nations during the forthcoming four decades of the bi-polar global supremacy of the USSR and the USA. The main aim of the Bandung conference was to restore human dignity and the image of God in people being exploited

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