Posted on November 10, 2015
The most significant achievement of the Convention for a Democratic SA (Codesa) was the transformation from illegitimate minority rule to legitimate majority rule. What was constitutionally impossible to provide were adequate safeguards against abuses such as racism, minority exclusion, corruption and bad governance. In the end, a system was created in which these aberrations could be legitimised by majoritarian democracy, providing a liberal veneer for racial discrimination, writes UP Political Sciences Extraordinary Professor Gerrit Olivier in Business Day.
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