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We welcome you to this 26th Anniversary of the United Democratic Movement’s (UDM) founding and welcoming of new members in Gqeberha. These past twenty-six years are a testimony to the perseverance of the Party to play a meaningful role in South African politics. We did so with limited resources, and we plan to continue playing this role despite the lack of resources.

On 27 September 1997, like-minded South Africans came together at what was then known as the World Trade Centre, in Kempton Park, to form the United Democratic Movement (UDM) after months of consultation between the erstwhile National Consultative Forum and the New Movement Process.

We welcome you to this National General Council of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and thank you for the commitment you have made to the Party in being here and contributing to our efforts for today. Aside from our goals of talking about the state of the nation and that of the UDM, our main mission is to talk about the 2024 National and Provincial Elections, our National Congress in the same years and our preparedness for what lies ahead. The climate is conducive for us to grow the party, g...

Build One South Africa (Bosa) proposes seven big ideas to embark on the journey of rebalancing our economy to more justly, equitably and efficiently distribute entrepreneurial opportunities and capital in SA.

Police bosses should have learnt from the Marikana massacre, but in the 10 years since, the cop service has been plagued by successive scandals involving claims of corrupt leaders and criminality.

The cheetah, the fastest land animal, can reach 100km an hour in about the same time as a Formula One car

Corruption has become so acute in South Africa that children in the Eastern Cape and other impoverished areas are starving to death – while a third of the (still edible and nutritious) food produced in South Africa ends up in landfills.

Criticisms of the failures in governance in SA since 1994 are well-founded but are not the fault of the Constitution.

Why does business continue to offer its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s October 2020 economic reconstruction and recovery plan, which is neither a plan nor a strategy and has no chance of returning the country to growth or much-increased employment? President Cyril Ramaphosa introduced an economic reconstruction and recovery plan in a speech to the National Assembly in October 2020. To read it today – about 15 months later – is to be reminded of both its implausibility ...