CONFERENCE FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

Contents: LIST OF ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS • DECLARATION CONFERENCE FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE • ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON NATIONAL EDUCATION CRISIS • ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE • ADOPTED: LABOR RELATIONS • ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON THE NATAL VIOLENCE • ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON CHILDREN • ADOPTED RESOLUTION ON ISOLATING THE REGIME • The document says the list of adopted resolutions at the Conference for a Democratic Future include 1. Declaration, 2. Negotiations and the Constituent Assembly 3. National education crisis 4. International pressure 5. Labour 6. Local government 7. Resistance in rural areas 8. Repression 9. Apartheid army 10. Natal violence 11. Against the death penalty 12. Children 13. Welfare 14. Health 15. Privatisation and economic power 16. Sports boycott and rebel tours to South Africa 17. The environmental crisis in South Africa, as an issue for the liberation movement now and in a post-apartheid South Africa 18. Isolating the regime 19. Press freedom. The document says the Conference for a Democratic Future was held in Johannesburg, South Africa in December 1989, to plan the next steps in the struggle to bring about a new democratic South Africa; the CDF was attended by more than 4,600 delegates from 2,000 organizations representing the broad front of anti-apartheid forces inside South Africa. The document discusses minority rules, violence against the people, unemployment, low wages, high rents, the minority government, the white minority, the struggle against apartheid, the international community, F.W. de Klerk, international isolation, the de Klerk regime, hit squads, jails, Death Row, detainees, the democratic movement, political power, exploitation, a non-racial, democratic South Africa, pupils, schools, retrenchment among teachers, the state's attempt to privatize education, parents, SRC's (Student Representative Councils), PTSAs. A democratic education system, the unbanning of the people's liberation movements, a nationally coordinated literacy campaign, disinvestment, sanctions, the cultural and sports boycott, political prisoners, Namibian independence, withdrawal from Angola, workers, trade unions, a living wage, the right of workers to strike, unemployment benefits, the Worker's Summit decisions, the repeal of the amendments to the Labour Relations Act, homelands, agriculture, domestic service, the public sector, the Labour Relations Amendment Act, trade union federations, the Temporary Removal of Restrictions on Economic Activity Act, SATS, ESCOM, UIF, adequate non-discriminatory health service, the trade union movement, stay-away actions, the Industrial Courts, mass rallies, campaigning against companies, Barlow Rand, the occupation of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, country-wide marches, reduced working hours, blacklisting of companies strike action, a co-ordinated anti-scabbing campaign, factories, mines, and privatized companies.