NDM, noun

Origin:
Initial letters of National Democratic Movement.
historical
A political movement to the left of centre, founded in October 1987 by former National Party and Progressive Federal Party members who believed that more co-operation should be sought with extra-parliamentary political structures. Also attributive.
Note:
The NDM was one of three groups which merged to form the Democratic Party in 1989: see note at DP noun2.
1987 Daily Dispatch 9 Oct. 1NDM in trouble as dispute surfaces.
1987 Daily Dispatch 22 Oct. 15PFP hecklers dominate at Durban NDM meeting.
1988 Star 10 May 3Time to talk to ANC, says NDM.
1988 Race Rel. Survey 1987–8 (S.A.I.R.R.) 745The leader of the PFP, Mr Colin Eglin, said that the NDM had ‘philosophically borrowed very heavily from the PFP’ but only its ‘style differs’.
1989 D. Worrall in Progress (P.F.P.) Mar. 2The NDM’s credibility with extra-parliamentary groups is an enormous political asset.
A political movement to the left of centre, founded in October 1987 by former National Party and Progressive Federal Party members who believed that more co-operation should be sought with extra-parliamentary political structures. Also attributive.
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