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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.
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