LUCKY MATHEBULA | South Africa’s democracy is a product of a political settlement
How the country ultimately negotiated its way into a settlement will always define the cadence of transformation and its democratic order
11 September 2024 - 04:40
Whenever there is a discourse about the “outstanding” aspects of the liberation struggle, there is a tendency to view South Africa from a presumption of a liberation struggle that was fought, won and ended with a treaty. A case has been made that a National Democratic Revolution, which is the transfer of (political, economic, and social control) power to the people, hastened the arrival of a post-1994 South Africa. ..
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