Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
New Unity Movement
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Description area
Dates of existence
1985-2010
History
The New Unity Movement (NUM) was formed in Cape Town in April 1985 by 40 organisations. The NUM has a federal structure (where affiliate organisations have policy autonomy) with unitary features. Thus both an organisation and a branch can affiliate. During the period covered by the collection, the largest affiliate was APDUSA. Others included the Western Cape Federation of Civics, the Teachers’ League of South Africa and the South Peninsula Education Fellowship. The NUM revamped the NEUM’s Ten Point Programme of minimum requirements for the democratisation of South Africa. Its aim is “to build a single, undivided, independent, non-racial, democratic and socialist South Africa in which the interests of workers and rural poor shall be paramount”.