Thank you. Hon Simmons, we must be honest to history, because if we misrepresent history we will mislead young people and we will make a nonsense of our country.
The United Democratic Front achieved everything it was set up to achieve. We set up the United Democratic Front to oppose what the National Party then called "the new deal". It was to oppose the tricameral Parliament and the black local authorities. It was to call for the release of prisoners, the return of exiles and the unbanning of the banned and to negotiate a settlement. All of that, the United Democratic Front achieved. The UDF was set up to achieve that and no more. You must go and look at the declaration of that organisation.