Boycott 2010 World Cup Brief Overview of Issues Re: Abathembu Justifications for Secession from South Africa

The Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, states, among others,

1. States shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity.

2. States shall adopt appropriate legislative and other measures to achieve those ends.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), states among others:

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

The International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (CESCR), states among others:

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

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