{{Short description|South African ideology}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Liberalism in South Africa sidebar|Principles}} '''Non-racialism''', '''aracialism''' or '''antiracialism''' is a South African ideology rejecting racism and "racialism" while affirming liberal democratic ideals.<ref name="macdonald06">{{cite book|last1=MacDonald|first1=Michael|title=Why Race Matters in South Africa|date=2006|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674021860|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MqNER4J6zEC&pg=PA106|language=en}}</ref>
==History== Non-racialism became the official state policy of South Africa after April 1994,<ref name="macdonald06"/> and it is enshrined in Chapter One of the Constitution of South Africa. The term has been criticized as vague, and carrying different meanings even among people sharing the same ideological tradition.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ratcliffe|first1=Peter|title=Race, Ethnicity And Nation: International Perspectives On Social Conflict|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135361853|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHKOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref>
The earliest use of the term was by Karl Polanyi in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|title=non-racialism|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/non-racialism|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000745/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/non-racialism|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2018|website=Oxford Dictionaries|accessdate=4 February 2018}}</ref> Neville Alexander follows Robert Sobukwe in defining non-racialism as the acknowledgement of the nonexistence of race as a scientific fact.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ratcliffe|first1=Peter|title=Race, Ethnicity And Nation: International Perspectives On Social Conflict|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135361853|pages=80–81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHKOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|title='Fascinating' video of Mugabe talking 'non-racialism' like Mandela goes viral on social media|url=https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/watch-fascinating-video-of-mugabe-talking-non-racialism-like-mandela-20170916|accessdate=6 February 2018|work=News24|date=16 September 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Non-racialism is a stated core policy of the African National Congress; however, the adoption of multiracialist policy in the Freedom Charter instead of Afrocentric non-racialism is what resulted in the breakaway Pan Africanist Congress of Azania in 1959.<ref name="directaction">{{cite web|title=1949-1961: Period of direct action, non violent resistance and protest|url=http://www.anc.org.za/content/1949-1961-period-direct-action-non-violent-resistance-and-protest|website=African National Congress|accessdate=6 February 2018|language=en|archive-date=6 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206134753/http://www.anc.org.za/content/1949-1961-period-direct-action-non-violent-resistance-and-protest|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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