# Federal Independent Democratic Alliance

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**Federal Independent Democratic Alliance** (FIDA) was a South African black conservative group set up in 1987. It was later established that it was a [front organisation](/source/Front_organisation) for Apartheid government.

## Background

It was established in July 1987 by an [East Rand](/source/East_Rand) businessman, [John Gogotya](/source/John_Gogotya).[1] It had its origins as a cultural organisation called Operation Advance and Upgrade.[1] Gogotya would later claim his organisation had 600,000 members.[1] Gogotya made statements that the organisation was opposed to Apartheid but willing to talk to the government.[2] Some of the statements made by the organisation included supporting the state of emergency declared by the government in the mid-80's and opposed [Western disinvestment](/source/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa) imposed on the country.[1] Other policies included supporting the [homeland system](/source/Bantustan), a federal system that would replace the provincial system and included the existing homelands at the time and opposed a "one man, one vote" as a political solution.[1]

## Front organisation

During the mid-eighties, the [SADF](/source/SADF) Military Intelligence (MI) organisation created *Project Capital*.[3] The object of the project was to create front organisations consisting of a moderate alliance of Black South African organisations to combat violence occurring in their communities.[3] One of these groups was FIDA.[4] SADF ended the project with FIDA in September 1991, when the MI projects were closed and FIDA received a final payment of R1.47 million.[3] At its height, it had an annual budget of R3 million in 1991, was based in Johannesburg, with offices in thirteen regions in South Africa and employed sixty-eight employees.[3] Supplied information to the MI on the protest movement in the townships through the [Joint Management Centres](/source/State_Security_Council).[1][3] There, it also distributed anti-protest and anti-boycott pamphlets.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-Kot01_1-6) Kotzé, H. J. (Hendrik Jacobus) (1991). [*Political organisations in South Africa : A-Z*](http://archive.org/details/politicalorganis0000kotz). Cape Town: Tafelberg; Centre for South African Politics at the University of Stellenbosch. pp. 109–10. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-624-03042-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-624-03042-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-USN01_2-0)** ["Weighing Change in Pretoria"](https://archive.org/details/sim_u-s-news-weekly-special-issues_1987-07-20_103_3/page/n41/mode/2up?q=%22Federal+Independent+Democratic+Alliance%22&view=theater). *U.S. News & World Report*. 3. Vol. 103. Washington DC. 20 July 1987. p. 38.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Truth_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Truth_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Truth_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Truth_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Truth_3-4) [*Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report*](http://archive.org/details/truthreconciliat0000sout_n6g6). Cape Town: The Commission. 1999. pp. 300–1. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-333-77615-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-333-77615-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ottaway, Marina (1993). [*South Africa : the struggle for a new order*](http://archive.org/details/southafricastrug00mari). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. p. 108. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8157-6716-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8157-6716-9).

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