On April 27, 1994 South Africa held its first democratic election. The whole process took three days to complete, and people who never had the opportunity to vote before, stood for hours and days in queues to cast their vote of freedom.
Was this election free and fair? What actually happened during the counting process, and was there ever a true reflection of the outcome. No, there was none. The 1994 election was a brokered deal between the main contenders at that time, The National Party (NP) (the former apartheid regime), the African National Congress (ANC) (ruling party today) and some right wing parties and liberation struggle smaller parties.
Read this article posted in the Guardian LV today for the full story.
Link to South Africa 2014 Elections Focus on Free and Fair
The true democracy of elections does not matter when the political parties have the power to dominate and reach amicable agreements with opposition parties. Why waste all the money on an election when the ruling party already has the result of the election?
Does this happen all over the world or only in South Africa.
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