A basic cornerstone of democracy is an independent civil society. With civil society eg big business,the English language media (with some praiseworthy exceptions like The Financial Mail,The Citizen, and The Cape Argus),99% of so-called academics, and even some religious bodies(supporting a communist dominated government?)falling over themselves to slavishly endorse the ANC,it can be rationally deduced that civil society is simply a surrogate of the ANC By the way are the pompous ,greedy business leaders ,who went with Mandela to the Transkei to promise to fund clinics and schools etc if the ANC won the Transkei,going to make good on their promises? And of course some foreign governments,not only pariahs like Gadaffi ,but also the likes Slick Willy Clinton and Tony Blurrrrrr were as far as I am concerned far from partisan.With these powerful (but immoral forces)backing them it is surprising the ANC did not get 90% of the vote Congratulations to the IFP,UDM,ACDP and UCDP for defying the so-called analysts predictions of these parties demise

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• Re: Civil Society Johan Maartens 23:06:56 6/05/99 (0)