Passenger on Nostr: South Africa had been electoral for a while - we had an electoral tradition going ...

South Africa had been electoral for a while - we had an electoral tradition going back more than a century before South Africa even existed as a legal entity - but under Apartheid we were definitely not democratic.

In 1983, were we democratic? No. Black people were still excluded from the franchise, and Black people made up about eighty percent of the population, despite mostly not being legally considered South African.