Raymond Suttner
The UDF as both an agent of the ANC as well as autonomous actor
The relationship between the ANC and UDF is an important and difficult question, read in different ways by authors examining the question. There are some statements of ANC figures suggesting that the ANC set up the UDF or directed the UDF, as the apartheid state alleged.
Professor Raymond Suttner unpacks part three of his column, 'The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom'.