WORLD : Anti-Apartheid Body Out in Open
The country’s largest anti-apartheid coalition, forced to operate covertly since being banned two years ago, announced today that it is resuming full-scale, above-ground operations.
The move is intended as a test of the white-led government’s professed commitment to reform.
Senior leaders of the United Democratic Front, representing more than 600 organizations with more than 2 million members, said they will reopen offices across the country and begin planning for a national conference in April.
Murphy Morobe, one of the coalition’s chief spokesmen, also told a news conference that a delegation of 22 leaders of the front plans to meet soon with Nelson Mandela, jailed leader of the African National Congress guerrilla movement.
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