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Has democracy been consolidated in South Africa?

By Raymond Suttner, 26 August 2014
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South African Air Force aircrafts form the number 20 representing the years of South Africa's democracy as they fly over the Union building during the inauguration ceremony of South African President Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, 24 May 2014. Zuma's African National Congress (ANC), which has ruled the country since the end of apartheid 20 years ago, won the 07 May elections with about 62 per cent of the vote. EPA/SIPHIWE SIBEKO / POOL
<p>Much argument over South African democracy revolves around the electoral dominance of the ANC and its repeated re-election as ruling party. Ten years ago I argued that there was nothing about ANC electoral dominance, in itself, that was necessarily antagonistic to constitutionalism. This was shown in political history, amongst other places in Sweden, where stable democracy coexisted with decades-long electoral dominance of the Social Democrats.&nbsp;</p>
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