Swaziland United Democratic Front

The Swaziland United Democratic Front is a coalition of pro-democracy interests including political parties, unions and churches. The Swaziland United Democratic Front was formed on 2 February 2008 at the Tum’s George Hotel in Manzini, Swaziland, attended by 120 persons from various organizations but mainly from the following:

SUDF
Swaziland United Democratic Front
Founded2008
HeadquartersManzini, Swaziland
Location
Key people
Sipho Kunene, Chairperson
Mduduzi Gina, secretary
Websitehttp://sudfinfo.wordpress.com/

The numbers made up by the individual members of all these organizations is about 100 000.

Mission of the SUDF

The founding of the SUDF was the result of a growing conviction that in order to create a strong civil society that could work actively for democratization and poverty eradication, there would have to be more unity and coordination among the civil society organisations of Swaziland.

The formation of the SUDF is a concerted attempt of these organisations to increase the space for democratic participation for and by the socio-economically and politically marginalized people of Swaziland. The existing space for protest action is currently limited to the unions, who have secured themselves this space through the Industrial Act. Since the unions are member organisations of the SUDF, the SUDF is therefore in a strong position to expand the space for this type of action.

In 2009, 5000 members of the SUDF agreed on the Manzini Declaration. The Manzini Declaration constitutes a mission statement, which affirms the SUDFs commitment to human rights and sets out its views on a number of substantive issues in relation to the basic rights of people in Swaziland and the social and political development in the country.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Key people

See also

Notes and references
  1. "The struggle for democracy in Swaziland | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal".
  2. http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=4438
  3. "Press Statements". Archived from the original on 23 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Africa Contact volunteer harassed by Swazi police". 13 April 2010.
  6. "SDC calls for democratic reform in Swaziland".
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