Two key elections are likely to dominate much political debate this year. The contrast between them helps throw light on the meaning of democracy. Later this year, between April and June, South Africans will go to the polls in the first elections of the post-Mandela era.  Ever since South Africa’s first democratic poll in 1994, elections in the country have been defined less by political issues than by race and party loyalty. Blacks have overwhelmingly supported the ANC; whites have […]

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