United Democratic Front

The United Democratic Front (UDF) is a political party in Namibia. Justus ǁGaroëb founded the party in 1989 and led it until 2013. He was succeeded by Apius Auchab. History The United Democratic Front is a political party that is most widely supported by Damara people. Its roots are in the Damara Council, an administrative body for the Damaraland territory in South West Africa that inbecame a political party in 1980. In 1989, the Damara Council joined other parties in order to participate in the first democratic elections in Namibia. The result of the merger was the United Democratic Front (UDF). The founding members of the UDF were Justus ǁGaroëb, leader of the Damara Council, and Reggie Diergaardt, leader of the Labour Party. On 20 July 1989, the Patriotic Unity Movement joined the UDF. The UDF formed an alliance with a number of splinter parties prior to the 1989 election: CANU-UDF, a wing of CANU, led by George Mutwa Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), led by Attie Beukes, Erica Beukes, and Werner Henry Mamugwe Caprivi Alliance Party (CAP), led by Gabriel Siseho Original People's Party (OPP), led by Theophelus Soroseb Namibia National Independence Party (NNIP), led by Rudolf Ngondo Patriotic Unity Movement (PUM), led by Eric Biwa.