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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa will speak at the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) 40th-anniversary celebrations on Sunday, but the organisation says it will keep party politics out of it.<\/p>\n

The UDF, an anti-apartheid civic movement that’s hosting its anniversary at the Johannesburg City Hall in Gauteng, released its programme.<\/p>\n

It revealed that Ramaphosa, Cape Town Anglican Archbishop Thabo Mokgola, and former North West premier Popo Molefe would speak at the event.<\/p>\n

Reverend Frank Chikane, who served as the director-general in the Presidency during Thabo Mbeki’s administration and on the UDF’s steering committee, said the organisation wanted to work with community formations and not necessarily with political parties.<\/p>\n

“So, all parties are welcome to participate in this. When we go to Soweto [in Gauteng], we don’t ask, ‘Which party do you belong to?’ We don’t want headlines that say the UDF supports that or other parties, Chikane told News24.<\/p>\n

He was speaking after the event was announced at a briefing.<\/p>\n

“We are acting above any other political interest \u2013 we are about the interests of the people of South Africa,” Chikane added.<\/p>\n

However, he added that the UDF would not remain apolitical, saying the formation would actively influence the country’s politics.<\/p>\n

Last month, he was elected to the national executive committee of the ANC Veterans League.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at an earlier UDF briefing, Chikane rejected the use of the incendiary “sellout” term, popularised by EFF leader Julius Malema at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s April 2018 funeral, when referring to UDF members.<\/p>\n

Chikane said no “cabal” determined the organisation’s work, adding that the UDF was a “massive movement that made decisions for itself”.<\/p>\n

“People paid a huge price; people died. These people that keep talking about ‘sellouts’ don’t know what they are talking about. There was a time when we were having mass funerals every weekend, and I reached a stage where I said, ‘I will not go to those funerals anymore.’<\/p>\n

“Because you can’t be normal if you [preside over] mass funerals every weekend.”<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa will speak at the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) 40th-anniversary celebrations on Sunday, but the organisation says it will keep party politics out of it. The UDF, an anti-apartheid civic movement that’s hosting its anniversary at the Johannesburg City Hall in Gauteng, released its programme. 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