| | The recent emergence of 'civil society theory' within opposition politics in South Africa poses and important supplement to the prevailing political perspectives of the anti-apartheid movement. Civil society theory has been imported into South Africa from democratic movements in Eastern Europe, Its credibility reinforced by its political role in the overthrow of the former communist regimes and its ideational role in defining a radical alternative to totalitarianism. In South Africa today there is almost no party of opposition that omits mention of the importance of civil society. |
