LETTER: This is a bastardised democracy
The problem lies in the structure of the governing party and its vision of a ‘national democratic revolution’
29 July 2020 - 14:57
It is frequently trumpeted here that SA achieved its much-vaunted democracy in 1994. But what we actually have is a bastardised version in which political parties are elected that then appoint their party faithful to advance the interests of the party. The interests of the people do not feature.
We have lived with this unfortunate version of democracy for 26 years now, and one doesn’t need to be an intellectual to see how dismally it has failed, and continues to fail, the people who are supposed to be served by democracy...
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