For democracy to be meaningful, representative government and popular power need to coexist
In the previous article, I argued that the ANC had transitioned from being a liberation movement to become a conventional Western political party, like that of the UK or the US, focusing on elections every four or five years. https://www.polity.org.za/article/anc-collapse-relates-to-breaking-from-its-liberation-movement-character-2024-05-13 ) It was argued that this would have a negative effect for the involvement of the public in matters that concerned them. In making the case for popular power to be revived and to become a part of our daily acts of agency as members of South Africa...
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