The Government has had a very specific target in this three-year-long political trial: the United Democratic Front, an anti-apartheid coalition that is committed to nonviolence.

The labor federation has been allied with the United Democratic Front, a banned anti-apartheid coalition, in the feud against Inkatha.

For example, on June 30, President Bush met at the White House with Albertina Sisulu, co-president of South Africa's largest anti-apartheid coalition, the United Democratic Front.

The front, an anti-apartheid coalition, endorses the political aims of the congress.

Hopes on Ending Apartheid The United Democratic Front, a South African anti-apartheid coalition, said progress toward its goal was allowing it to disband.

Most of the deaths occurred in clashes between black supporters of Inkatha, the Zulu political movement, and those of the United Democratic Front, the large anti-apartheid coalition.

The Congress Alliance was an anti-apartheid coalition formed in South Africa in the 1950s.

Mr. Makaleng was an official of the United Democratic Front, the major anti-apartheid coalition, which was restricted in a crackdown Feb. 24.

In one of his first setbacks since he was released from prison last month, Nelson Mandela's effort to form a broad anti-apartheid coalition has been rebuffed by a rival South African opposition movement.

But Dr. Boesak, addressing a meeting of the United Democratic Front, an anti-apartheid coalition, said whites themselves should decide whether to boycott the voting.