Gelykheid as rewolusionêre begrip by die ANC en groen van prinsterer : ’n tydige waarskuwing vir vandag?

dc.contributor.authorMaritz, Paul J.
dc.contributor.authorSchlebusch, Jan Adriaan
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-17T05:52:01Z
dc.date.available2026-02-17T05:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-31
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANS : Gelykheid is sedert die ontstaan van die ANC ’n kernbegrip in die party se ideologiese raamwerk. Hierdie strewe na gelykheid kom duidelik na vore in verskeie sleuteldokumente, maar die vraag oor hoe die ANC gelykheid teoreties verstaan en in die praktyk toepas, bly kompleks en onvoldoende nagevors. ’n Ondersoek na hierdie bronne dui daarop dat die party gelykheid nie net in die klassieke sin van die woord, as gelykheid voor die reg, verstaan word nie, maar eerder as ’n rewolusionêre gelykheid wat beslag moet vind op sosio-ekonomiese gebied. Die ANC se konsep van gelykheid moet geplaas word binne ’n breër historiese debat oor die aard van gelykheid, wat sy oorsprong in die Verligting het. Hierdie rewolusionêre idee, met wortels in die denke van Jean-Jacques Rousseau en Karl Marx, is in diepte bekritiseer deur die Nederlandse staatsman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer. Hy het gewaarsku dat hierdie soort gelykheid samelewingsverbande kan ondermyn, sosiale samehorigheid kan skade doen en eiendomsregte kan skend. Hierdie kritiek beklemtoon die belangrikheid daarvan om af te sien van ’n ideologiese raamwerk wat teenproduktief op samelewings inwerk, ten einde burgerlike vryhede en sosiale vooruitgang te beskerm – ook in Suid-Afrika se hedendaagse politieke konteks.
dc.description.abstract ENGLISH : Since its inception, the concept of equality has been a central tenet in the ideological framework of the ANC. This pursuit of equality is evident in various key documents throughout the party's history, but the question of how the ANC understands equality on a theoretical level, and how the party implements it in practice, remains complex and insufficiently researched. An examination of these sources indicates that the party does not merely understand equality in the classical sense of equality before the law, but rather as a revolutionary form of equality pertaining to the socio-economic sphere. The ANC's conceptualisation of equality must be situated within a broader historical debate about the nature of equality, which originated during the Enlightenment. This revolutionary notion, rooted in the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, has most notably been critiqued by the Dutch statesman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer. He warned that this form of equality could undermine social bonds, damage societal cohesion, and violate property rights. His critique underscores the importance of rejecting an ideological framework that has historically proven counterproductive to societal development, in order to safeguard civil liberties and ensure socio-economic progress - also within South Africa's contemporary political context.
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethics
dc.description.librarianam2026
dc.description.sdgNone
dc.description.urihttps://journals.co.za/journal/koers
dc.identifier.citationMaritz, P.J. & Schlebusch, J.A. , 2025. Gelykheid as rewolusionêre begrip by die ANC en Groen van Prinsterer: ’n Tydige waarskuwing vir vandag?. KOERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 90(1). Available at: https:// doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.90.1.2604.
dc.identifier.issn0023-270X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2304-8557 (online
dc.identifier.other10.19108/KOERS.90.1.2604
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/108296
dc.language.isoAfrikaans
dc.publisherKoers Society of South Africa
dc.rights© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND).
dc.subjectANC
dc.subjectGelykheid
dc.subjectGuillaume Groen van Prinsterer
dc.subjectNasionale demokratiese rewolusie
dc.subjectGuillaume Groen van Prinsterer
dc.subjectNational democratic revolution
dc.titleGelykheid as rewolusionêre begrip by die ANC en groen van prinsterer : ’n tydige waarskuwing vir vandag?
dc.title.alternativeEquality as revolutionary concept with the ANC and groen van prinsterer : a timely warning for today?
dc.typeArticle

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