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Encyclopedia > United Democratic Movement (South Africa)

The United Democratic Movement is a South African political party, formed by a prominent former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer (who has since resigned from the UDM), and a former African National Congress and homeland leader, Bantu Holomisa in 1997. It has a anti-seperatist, pro-diversity platform; and supports an individualist South Africa with a strong moral sense, in both social and economic senses.


In the 1999 general election, 14 members were elected to the National Assembly.


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South Africa (10/06) (6030 words)
South Africa's GDP is expected to increase gradually during the next few years, and the government recently revised upward its 2005 estimated growth to 4.3%.
South Africa was a founding member of the League of Nations and in 1927 established a Department of External Affairs with diplomatic missions in the main west European countries and in the United States.
South Africans (particularly the ANC leadership) also acknowledge support from and ties to the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, U.S.-South Africa relations were severely affected by South Africa's racial policies.
STATEMENT AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS (1910 words)
South Africa continues to be ruled by a white minority regime which does not derive its authority from all the people of our country.
South Africa continues to be governed according to a Constitution which the Security Council has determined to be null and void.
When it took power in South Africa 42 years ago the present ruling party had one central objective in mind: the maintenance and entrenchment of the system of white minority domination by all means and methods in its power.
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