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Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa

Date of Birth: 25 July 1955
Place of Birth: Mqanduli, South Africa


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A morality contest

Fellow veteran Bantu Holomisa joined the ANC fell out with Mbeki and formed his own United Democratic Movement with former NP star Roelf Meyer...


Would be breakaway

Attempts by leaders who broke away in the period after 1994 when Bantu Holomisa formed the United Democratic Movement have failed...


Local grumbles

In Gauteng the DA scored nearly a third of the vote mostly at the expense of parties other than the ANC; Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Movement (UDM) was badly hit...


Foregone conclusion

It got louder when he explained his party's electoral alliance with the DA as necessitated by the recent constitutional change that allows party representatives to switch allegiance in mid-term which has drained representation from the IFP and smaller parties such as Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Front...


Gatsha bites back

Of the five potential KZN defectors two were from Inkatha two from the mainly white Democratic Alliance (DA) led by Tony Leon one from the predominantly Xhosa United Democratic Movement (UDM) led by Bantu Holomisa...


Congress gets scratchy

Madikizela-Mandela though not a candidate is admired by some traditional leaders and rural electors and could cause trouble; another influential loose cannon is former 'homeland' ruler Bantu Holomisa who founded the breakaway United Democratic Movement and resisted ex-President Nelson Mandela's attempt to woo him back to the ANC...


What's left of the opposition

United Democratic Front: Formed by disgruntled politicians from the ANC under Bantu Holomisa and the New National Party under Roelf Meyer it has failed in its quest to form a national party that breaks with race...


Leaders who retire, leaders who don't

Some of the ANC-aligned Congress of SA Students broke away in December to ally with ex-General Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Movement while the SA Non-Governmental Organisations Coalition (Sangoco) is joining up with Cosatu militants...


Dealing with dissenters

The UDM is led by Bantu Holomisa former military dictator of the Transkei homeland (then expelled from the ANC for accusing a cabinet colleague of corruption)...


Mbeki's triumph

The curious amalgam of non-ANC blacks and conservative whites is refracted in its joint leadership: retired General Bantu Holomisa and Roelf Meyer...


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