The UDF
Subtitle: a history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991
By: Jeremy Seekings.
Publisher: David Philip; James Currey; Ohio University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cape Town; Oxford; Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: United Democratic Front (South Africa); National liberation movements -- South Africa.; Self-determination, National -- South Africa.; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-363) and index.