'National democratic society' is an ideologically loaded term, not a harmless turn of phrase

South African political discourse is often obfuscated by language calculated to invoke emotion and sentiment. So it is with “national democratic society”. How could anyone oppose this, democracy being one of those ideals which almost all in the county claim to believe in?

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