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The volunteer's handbook titled 'You and the UDF's One Million Signature Campaign' is a one page pamphlet issued by the United Democratic Front (UDF) for its Million Signature Campaign (MSC) in January 1984.

This lecture titled 'A code of conduct for activists' was to help activists develop their understanding of the ideas of discipline and a code of political conduct. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This is the declaration of the United Democratic Front (UDF) - a declaration made by the freedom loving people of South Africa cherishing the vision of a United Democratic South Africa against the government's constitutional proposals and the Koornhof bills, and it was made on the 20 August 1983, at Rocklands Community Hall, Mitchell's Plain, near Cape Town

This article is a draft outline of the book on the United Democratic Front (UDF), date unknown. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This document titled 'The draft resolutions on financial matters relating to winding up of the UDF' relates to the dissolution of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in August 1991. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

Press release by the United Democratic Front at its National Working Committee Conference with a message to all comrades and compatriots in detention, prison and facing trials, on 28 May 1987

This article 'No pussyfooting will change Nat thinking' by Murphy Morobe, the acting publicity secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF), was published in the Sunday Times newspaper of 24 August 1986. Included in the SAHA online repository 'Tracing the unbreakable thread: non-racialism in South Africa today'

This pamphlet titled 'Christmas Against the Emergency December 16 to 26' was issued by the Campaign for National United Action, pledging ten days of united action in protest against apartheid and the State of Emergency in December 1986. This campaign was supported by the United Democratic Front (UDF), Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the National Education Crisis Committee (NECC). Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This is part 2 of an article titled 'The apartheid counter revolution: a permanent emergency' by the United Democratic Front (UDF) which looks at the violence on the South African youths by the government in its counter revolution. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This booklet titled "Peoples Education: Learning and Teaching under a State of Emergency" contains the lectures delivered by Mluleki George, United Democratic Front (UDF) Border President, and Eric Molobi, National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) National Coordinator, for the twentieth Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture on 22.10.1986. This document was digitised by the South African History Archive (SAHA) in 2012. Included in SAHA virtual exhibition - 'The Future is Ours: Commemorating Youth in the Struggle'; 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

Petition form signed in the Johannesburg region for the United Democratic Front's (UDF's) One Million Signature Campaign in 1984. This one-page document was digitised by SAHA in 2011. Included in SAHA exhibition kit and virtual exhibition, titled 'Women hold up half the sky: commemorating women in the struggle'.

Statement released on the 10 October 1989 by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the United Democratic Front on behalf of the Mass Democratic Movement regarding their release which is also a victory for the international solidarity movement.

'Speak: the voice of the community', published by the Speak Community Newspaper Project, reflected the Transvaal communities' struggle against relocations, shack demolitions and evictions. Page three of this April 1986 issue contains the article 'The UDF throws its weight behind education struggle' for its focus on the National Education Conference. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This is a speech delivered by Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison on the 11th February 1990. Included in SAHA's online edition of the book and in the virtual exhibition 'Tracing the unbreakable thread: non-racialism in South Africa'

Statement issued on the 1 August 1983 at Khotso House in Johannesburg, by the United Democratic Front (UDF) Executive Committee on the national launching of the UDF. The national executive committee of the United Democratic Front (UDF) met in Johannesburg on Saturday July 30 and Sunday July 31 and it was decided that the UDF should be launched nationally in Cape Town at a People's rally on August 20 .

This statement announcing the dissolution of the United Democratic Front (UDF) was issued by its National Executive Council on 15 August 1991. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This is a handwritten statement of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on the death of Victoria Mxenge in December 1985. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

Statement by Mohhamed Valli Moosa on the view of the assassination of David Webster as part of the ongoing attempt to crush the freedom movement in the country.

Statement issued on 28 June 1990 by COSATU, UDF and SAYCO after the war in Natal that has cost the lives of over three thousand people, homeless people and misery and suffering brought to the millions of the people living there.

'The Tasks of the Democratic Movement during the State of Emergency' is a twenty-page draft article by the United Democratic Front (UDF). Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

This article titled 'The UDF: Why did we form it? And how appropriate is it today?', reflects on the activities of the United Democratic Front (UDF) during its first year in existence. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

United Democratic Front pledges support for striking mine workers as they strike for a living wage.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) resolution on women was adopted in 1983. This one-page document was digitised by SAHA in 2011. Included in SAHA exhibition kit and virtual exhibition, titled 'Women hold up half the sky: commemorating women in the struggle'.

Press statement released on 24 February 1988 regarding the United Democratic Front, protesting the banning and restricting of activities of their open and peaceful organisations.

Contains the following articles: ANC and business: the tactics of talks, The Weekly Mail, Industry and government: 'two sides of the same bloody coin', Bongweni Township, Colesburg: little to be thankful for, Inkatha and the state: UDF under attack, Urban Foundation strategies for change: a black future for free enterprise, Book review: Psychic survival in troubled times, Courts, Labour action and Sached Trust

Contains the following articles: Creating mass power: beyond the cannon of Mamelodi, Unity and the Freedom Charter, Power and democracy: defining working-class politics, Strikes and faction fights, Architectural services, Courts, Strikes and disputes and Ravan Press

'Work in Progress' is a journal published by the South African Research Service. This extract from the September 1986 issue (pages 15 to 27) covers the rent boycotts. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

'Work in Progress' is a journal published by the South African Research Service. This issue of April 1987 covers the launch of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO). Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.

'Work in Progress' is a journal published by the South African Research Service. This extract from the September 1989 issue (pages 7 to 10) contains the article 'Defiance - a measure of expectations' which reflects on the Mass Democratic Movement's (MDM's) defiance campaign. Included in SAHA online exhibition 'UDF 30 years: commemorating 30 years since the founding of the United Democratic Front'.