… The United Democratic Front (UDF) rejects the current government policies of privatisation of housing, which fail to cater for the housing needs of 80 per cent of the black population in South Africa. The UDF believes that all the people of South Africa deserve more than third-class housing in the form of site and service schemes. The UDF believes strongly that the state has a centrally important role to play in the provision of land, services and houses for all South Africans. The UDF commits itself to a process of serious negotiations towards the establishment of new land and housing policies that can begin to solve the problems of landlessness and homelessness … There can be no justification for the continuation of landlessness and homelessness, for the lack of clean water, electricity, water-borne sewerage and other basic facilities, and the government must move rapidly to rectify the situation. Constitutional negotiations and a political settlement in South Africa will be rendered useless if urban areas continue to be inaccessible to the poor and the homeless.

People should stop being dependants of government because it will destroy them. Going through free schooling, then under-performing to a point where they don't qualify for bursaries and loans or even pass matric, then falling pregnant and depending on social grants to raise these children and waiting for RDP houses similar to those they grew up in is not right … That's why, during housing protests, you see young people – who can study and work – instead of old people. We need to instil morals in our children because solutions for the housing backlog relate to education, poverty and moral regeneration.