South Africa stands out as a country that strongly defends democracy
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Celebrated annually on 15 September, the International Day of Democracy is an opportunity for us to reflect on what exactly is democracy and why it is not faring too well in today’s world. , and the various forms of collective decision-making that had followed in other parts of the world, including Africa.
Today’s bipolarity has a much more complex character. Protagonists of the autocracy network, notably Russia, China, Iran and their proxies, still have one common denominator: a disdain for democracy, which they try to disparage and undermine in a number of ways. Democracy is an answer to the question of who rules and requires that the people be sovereign and able to choose their representatives in free and fair elections. In and by itself, this is not enough for the proper functioning of democracy. The missing element is liberalism, a word derived from Latin meaning free and referring to the limits of power incumbent upon those elected to office.
The concern is that military takeovers are part of a much broader political crisis of democracy on the continent as popular antidemocratic sentiments run beyond the coup belt. According to Afrobarometer data, the proportion of citizens rating their country as a democracy has dropped by three percentage points across 32 countries from 2014 to 2023.
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