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Title: | An unlikely utopia: State and civil society in South Africa |
Author: | Friedman, Steven |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 5-19 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | future political systems |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02589349108704957 |
Abstract: | The aim of the liberation struggle in South Africa is no longer only to win State power but to limit it. Support within the ANC for a postapartheid 'civil society' independent of the State has grown. This article first looks at the term 'civil society' itself. There is agreement that it describes that web of institutions formed by voluntary associations. Its independence implies a guaranteed right to organize, act and speak, and a limit to the power of governments. Then the article looks at the changing role of civil society in South Africa. It describes the role of civil society in local 'liberation' politics through the past decade; the ANC view on it; and its possible role in a democratic South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |