democracy in south africa.?

Democracy as a form of government can't succeed if the people don't take matters seriously. America has created lot of wealth and also has vast resources. Hence the people may not concern themselves as to what is happening. But newly freed nations and in countries where the economies are not so sound , people are required to take matters seriously.Otherwise Chinese way of governance may become the eventual necessity for real development and progress to take place.

You are apparently unaware that democracy is not an entity or identity,it is a process/sytem of governance originating in

Greece.Therefore, there cannot be a democratic country,

but a country can use democracy as a process of governance.

Democracy is a process of governance based on Rule by Might,without any further considerations or restraints.If the

majority of Australians were to agree to the enactment for a Bill for an Act of Parliament,authorising the shooting of everyone with blue eyes as a means of solving the number of

automobiles on the roads,environmental problems and unemployment,then this would be democracy in action.

Therefore,democracy should be avoided as if it were the plague.

Yes, on the whole it is working well. There are a few hiccups here and there but nobody could seriously say that any of South Africa's elections since 1994 have been not free and fair. As far as the stuff that happens between elections is concerned, there are some problems but our courts have upheld the constitution very strictly and slapped down undemocratic behavior when they have ruled on such matters. A recent development that is very good for democracy is the emergence of the centre-left "Congress of the People" (COPE) party. They are a breakaway from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) which has been shifting leftwards under the influence of their alliance partners the Communists and the trade union group "Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and other "hard left" factions. The split was precipitated by the emergence of a "personality cult" around the ANC leader Jacob Zuma, who is also the party's presidential candidate for the upcoming general election in spite of being under indictment on numerous charges of bribery and corruption. The split will hopefully end the parliamentary dominance (over 2/3rds of the seats) the ANC has had since 1994. The ANC could also lose control of one or two provincial governments to coalitions of opposition parties. Overwhelming dominance by a ruling party is widely accepted by scholars of government and politics to be a threat to democracy.

The problem in South Africa is that the political parties are largely organized along Zulu, Xhosha, and Afrikaaner ethnic lines. Democracies have difficulties when parties are mere fronts for deeper ethnic divisions.