Question: who formed part of the process of setting up the freedom charter
Answer: Demands such as `` Land to be given to all landless people '' , `` Living wages and shorter hours of work '' , `` Free and compulsory education , irrespective of colour , race or nationality '' were synthesized into the final document by ANC leaders including Z.K. Mathews , Lionel `` Rusty '' Bernstein , Ethel Drus , Ruth First and Alan Lipman ( whose wife , Beata Lipman , hand - wrote the original Charter ) .