United Democratic Movement

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United Democratic Movement
Abbreviation	UDM
President	Bantu Holomisa
Secretary-General	Yongama Zigebe
Chairperson	Bongani Msomi
Deputy President	Nqabayomzi Kwankwa
Founder	Bantu Holomisa & Roelf Meyers
Founded	27 September 1997 (1997-09-27)
Split from	African National Congress
Headquarters	Ground Floor CPA House 101 Du Toit Street Pretoria Gauteng
Student wing	United Democratic Students' Movement
Youth wing	United Democratic Movement Youth Vanguard
Women's wing	United Democratic Movement Women’s Organisation
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Yellow   Green   Red
National Assembly seats	3 / 400
NCOP seats	1 / 90
Provincial Legislatures	3 / 487
Cape Town City Council	1 / 231
Party flag
Website
udm.org.za
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The United Democratic Movement (UDM) is a centre-left, social-democratic, South African political party, formed by a prominent former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer (who has since resigned from the UDM), a former African National Congress and Transkei homeland leader, General Bantu Holomisa, and a former ANC Executive Committee member, John Taylor. It has an anti-separatist, pro-diversity platform; and supports an individualist South Africa with a strong moral sense, in both social and economic senses.

Mongameli Bobani was the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality from 2018 to 2019 and the first mayor from the UDM since the party governed King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality (2000-2002).

In the 2024 general election, UDM got three seats with 0.49% of the vote in Parliament (National Assembly).^[1]

In June 2024, United Democratic Movement agreed to join the ANC-led government of national unity (GNU).^[2] Leader of the UDM, Bantubonke ‘Bantu’ Holomisa, became the Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans in the Government of National Unity.^[3]