Philip Machanick | Eligible voters no longer vote; they don’t trust any politician. The UDF, a coalition of hundreds of small organisations, could be an answer.
was a coalition of hundreds of small organisations from civic movements and unions to business groups and academics. It was organised from the ground up so it was hard to disrupt leadership. It started in 1983, when apartheid oppression was at its peak, partially in response to PW Botha’s tricameral parliament.
Two things made the UDF successful: the way it was organised was not reliant on central leadership and it had a clear single-minded goal: end apartheid.The opposition space is fragmented, with leaders who are not able to work together. Local organisations have little sway with political parties, as the political process is designed to promote the leader.
I have learnt a few things from being involved in new political movements . It is important to have a robust constitution that clearly defines leadership structures, decision-making powers and mechanism and disciplinary processes. For a grass-roots organisation, the constitutional role of its constituting structures also needs to be very clear.
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