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<strong>LitNet</strong> Akademies Jaargang 9(2), Augustus 2012<br />

Demokrasie en demokratiser<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Afrika: Deel 2<br />

Die belangriks<strong>te</strong> faktore wat substantiewe oorgang<br />

belemmer<br />

Ops<strong>om</strong>m<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Chris Nelson<br />

Chris Nelson: Navors<strong>in</strong>gsgenoot, Fakul<strong>te</strong>it Krygskunde, Universi<strong>te</strong>it S<strong>te</strong>llenbosch<br />

In Deel 1 van <strong>hier</strong><strong>die</strong> artikel is ag<strong>te</strong>rgrond<strong>in</strong>ligt<strong>in</strong>g versk<strong>af</strong> <strong>te</strong>n aansien van <strong>die</strong> konsep<strong>te</strong><br />

demokrasie en demokratiser<strong>in</strong>g, asook <strong>die</strong> <strong>te</strong>oretiese benader<strong>in</strong>g wat gevolg sal word. Verder<br />

is klem gelê op ’n breë oorsig van Afrika se politieke ontwikkel<strong>in</strong>g gedurende <strong>die</strong><br />

prekoloniale, koloniale en postkoloniale tydperke, asook <strong>die</strong> huidige stand van demokrasie op<br />

<strong>die</strong> vas<strong>te</strong>land. In <strong>die</strong> lig daarvan dat <strong>die</strong> aangehaalde statistiek daarop dui dat <strong>die</strong> oorgang na<br />

’n demokratiese owerheidsvorm regoor Afrika nie as ’n suksesverhaal van be<strong>te</strong>kenis beskryf<br />

kan word nie, sal <strong>in</strong> Deel 2 van <strong>die</strong> artikel ’n besprek<strong>in</strong>g gewy word aan <strong>die</strong> belangriks<strong>te</strong><br />

politieke-kultuur-, politieke–eli<strong>te</strong>-keuse- en makrostrukturele faktore wat substantiewe<br />

oorgang belemmer. Soos <strong>in</strong> <strong>die</strong> <strong>in</strong>leid<strong>in</strong>g vermeld sal, waar van toepass<strong>in</strong>g, ook aangedui<br />

word op welke wyse s<strong>om</strong>mige van <strong>hier</strong><strong>die</strong> faktore <strong>die</strong> demokratiese konsolider<strong>in</strong>gsproses <strong>in</strong><br />

kon<strong>te</strong>mporêre Suid-Afrika beïnvloed.<br />

Trefwoorde: demokrasie; demokratiser<strong>in</strong>g; demokratiese konsolidasie; burgerlike<br />

samelew<strong>in</strong>g; politieke kultuur; politieke eli<strong>te</strong>; etnisi<strong>te</strong>it; neopatrimonialisme; mediavryheid;<br />

sosio-ekon<strong>om</strong>iese ontwikkel<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Abstract<br />

The most important factors imped<strong>in</strong>g substantive transition<br />

The end of the eighties not only witnessed the demise of Marxist-Len<strong>in</strong>ist authoritarianism <strong>in</strong><br />

the former Soviet Union and its Eas<strong>te</strong>rn European sa<strong>te</strong>lli<strong>te</strong> sta<strong>te</strong>s, but also heralded the arrival<br />

of liberal democracy as the triumphant form of government. As this new wave of democracy<br />

engulfed the <strong>in</strong><strong>te</strong>rnational sys<strong>te</strong>m scores of sta<strong>te</strong>s threw off the authoritarian yoke and by<br />

adopt<strong>in</strong>g new democratic constitutions and hold<strong>in</strong>g free and fair elections, took their rightful<br />

positions <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong><strong>te</strong>rnational c<strong>om</strong>munity. This new wave of democracy also swept over the<br />

African cont<strong>in</strong>ent. Af<strong>te</strong>r decades of suffer<strong>in</strong>g under dictatorial regimes of almost every<br />

imag<strong>in</strong>able type, most African societies embarked hopefully on the new pr<strong>om</strong>is<strong>in</strong>g road to<br />

democracy and freed<strong>om</strong>.<br />

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