MR LAX
With the greatest of respect Mr Mchunu, the UDF operated perfectly above ground.  All the Youth Congresses held meetings publicly, people became members.  Yes, at certain times their members were detained and their activities were frowned upon by the powers that were of the day, but the UDF was a perfectly legitimate, above board, organisation.
	Many, many of the Youth Congresses of every little small village and township around South Africa, were all publicly operating above board.  It wasn't an underground movement by any manner of means.
	That is not the same for the ANC of course, that was a banned organisation, as was other liberation movements.