Why might a historian conclude that the meeting that produced the Freedom Charter was held in secret?

The Freedom Charter called for major changes, including an end to apartheid and equal rights for all South Africans. Such demands directly challenged the government’s system of racial segregation, so the authorities would have seen the gathering as threatening. This makes choice C, that the charter’s call to end apartheid would have threatened the government, the best reason for holding the meeting secretly.

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