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The Udf

Jeremy Seekings

2000371 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000James Currey · 371 pages · ENGISBN 9780852558423
  • 2000David Philip · 371 pages · ENGISBN 9780864864031

"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.

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