Time for Africa to refashion its democratic model
By Mike Siluma In the dying days of apartheid, our founding fathers chose the multi-party system of democracy. The kind of system sold to post-independence Africa by the West as a pass into the community of civilised nations. Like other post-colonial African countries, South Africa swallowed hook line and sinker the idea that the only legitimate form of democracy is one that is necessarily adversarial – where the ruling party […]