SOME 400 delegates attended the three-day annual conference of the General Council of the United Democratic Front in Azaadville, near Kantontein, in early 1985. The UDF general council issued the following platform of demands:
* The immediate scrapping of the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts Group Areas laws, and an end to an! form of forced removals.
the bantustans ending of the labour system. * ine scrapping of the tricameral parliament other Autorities Act and other instruments of racist rule. * A unified and democratic education system. * The repeal of the pass laws and all other restrictions freedom movement.
bareain and the security of benefits, as Rights Charters of Urganisation The release and all return of exile:
migratory and assembly.
disbanding. (South African puppet Police), African repressive apparatuses.
Declaration of Human Rights.
of workers to freely organise in trade unions, to collectiveright without being penalised, the right to employment, housing, ANC social welfare, pensions and maternilaid down in the UN of all prisoners, the unbanning of the banned individuals and organisations, the and the lifting of all restrictions on the freedom of speech SADF Defence Force); overa countersurcell force in Namibia), the SAP (South all other * The scrapping of all barbaric securiUniversal
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