The UDF : a history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991
"This is the first major study of an organisation that transformed South African politics in the 1980s. By co-ordinating popular struggles on the ground and promoting the standing of the African National Congress, the UDF played a central role in the demise of apartheid and paved the way for South Africa's emergence as a democracy. Based on extensive documentary and interview sources, this book traces the UDF's birth, career and dissolution. It is a tale of strategic and tactical decision-making: of how opponents of apartheid made choices that helped to seal the fate of white domination whilst avoiding the general bloodbath that always threatened."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
David Philip ; James Currey ; Ohio University Press, Cape Town, Oxford, Athens, 2000
History
xiii, 371 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
9780864864031, 9780852558423, 9780821413364, 0864864035, 0852558422, 0821413368
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The United Democratic Front, freedom and democracy in South Africa
The origins of the UDF, 1976-1982
"The freedom breeze": the formation of the UDF, January-August 1983
"Siyaya": forming the UDF in the regions
"Spooking PW": opposing the tricameral parliament, September 1983-August 1984
The township revolt, September 1984-September 1985
People's power, September 1985-June 1986
A holding operation: surviving the states of emergency, June 1986-February 1988
The mass democratic movement, February 1988-December 1989
The dissolution of the UDF, January 1990-August 1991
Conclusion: turning the tide