The African Charter on Human and People's Rights followed the footsteps of the European and Inter-American systems by creating a regional human rights system for Africa.
The preamble commits to the elimination of Zionism, which it compares with colonialism and apartheid,[REF] caused South Africa to qualify its 1996 accession with the reservation that the Charter fall in line with the UN's resolutions "regarding the characterization of Zionism."[REF] .