Is there still more to expect of democracy in South Africa?
SOURCE: The Thinker: For Thought Leaders
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Kondlo
KEYWORDS: DEMOCRACY
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6029
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4643
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4643
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Kondlo
KEYWORDS: DEMOCRACY
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6029
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4643
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4643
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Abstract
Is there still more to expect of democracy in South Africa? Yes, and no. This ambiguity attests, partially to the concentrated essence of the historical dialectic of democracy as a concept and a practice. In South Africa, there is a lot to expect, a lot to hope for and to anticipate. It could be a perpetual state of "hoping" until our democracy finds a way to retrieve its own mistakes. But it takes democracies a long time to arrive at this moment of truth.-
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