UDF 40th Anniversary: Former member says there’s still work to be done
This comes as the 40th anniversary of the UDF is being commemorated in various parts of the country on Sunday.
United Democratic Front marks 40 years on 20 August 2023. Picture: Twitter/@_cosatu
CAPE TOWN - While the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the United Democratic Front (UDF) draw to a close, one former member said there’s a lot of work left to complete.
Shepi Mati headed up Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in the early 1980s and was a UDF member.
He said the social inequality which they fought for all those years ago is still a problem today and must be addressed.
“We have deepened the inequality between rich and poor and I think for me that is the biggest challenge that face us, and we cannot postpone it and put it on the shoulders of our children.”
He said there’s a challenge of creating a new nation which he adds still illudes us.
“We sang songs about a new nation, and yet at this current moment we seemed to have lost our way around forging non-racialism in practice on the ground.”