Non-racialism became the official state policy of
South Africa after April 1994, The earliest use of the term was by
Karl Polanyi in the 1930s.
Neville Alexander follows
Robert Sobukwe in defining 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 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. ==References==