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| Title: |
Dominant Party Rule, Opposition Parties and Minorities in South Africa |
| Author: |
Giliomee, Hermann Myburgh, James Schlemmer, Lawrence |
| Appeared in: |
Democratization |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (2001) nr. 1 pages 161-182 |
| Year: |
2001 |
| Contents: |
South Africa has achieved a certain level of formal democracy in that regular elections are held and the Constitution is unaltered. However, the persistence of South Africa's racial voting patterns mean that minorities are marginalized and that, in effect, the ruling party is no longer accountable to the electorate. The ruling African National Congress has embarked on a radical project of 'transforming' the state and society. This entails both the elimination of the distinction between party and state, and the attempt to enforce equality of outcomes or 'demographic representivity' on all institutions in both the public and private sphere. The persistence of racial division also enables the ruling party to delegitimize the opposition as 'racist' or 'defenders of white privilege', a strategy that further entrenches racial division. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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