Democratization In The South African Case Study

It is worth quoting Huntington when he made the distinctions in his book on liberalization and democratization: “Liberalization may or may not lead to full-scale democratization (Huntington, 9),” which shows that the results of liberalizations are frequently uncertain, and the process to democratization is not an automatic one. However, in the South African case, the liberalization did lead to the democratization in an orderly fashion (both the style of the transition for the most part and the temporal order wise). This almost-smooth transformation of the nation should not be taken for granted, since both groups, the disenfranchised African National Congress and the National Party of the hegemonic Afrikaners, put tremendous efforts to collectively

It would mean that the workers would have to go through the question of sheer survival, and doing so personally is maybe futile; however, if there is an organized labor that can throw strike in a big scale, then it no longer is futile, but powerful. This was the case with South Africa; the organized labor that also incorporated the disenfranchised Black laborers could do such (Lecture

At first, the Commonwealth wanted to put economic sanctions, so that South Africa would not be able to participate without normalization; however, Thatcher governed Britain refused to partake, making the efforts of the Commonwealth pointless (Sparks, 33). Nonetheless, the British government joined the Commonwealth to exclude if necessary. The other organizations/firms (such as the International Monetary Funds) and other countries, endorsed by numerous ordinary people, also joined the economic sanction (includes United States; Have You Heard From Johannesburg?; Donnelly; Lecture 7-8; Sparks, 98). As a result, the booming economy of the South Africa was suspended and significantly attacked. In short, the theory is too focused on the concept of the hegemony being reluctant to share its capital, in that it dismisses even the fundamental survival as a class. In addition, the “social” aspect among the nations also had to do with the hegemonic government giving up power, but to the lesser degree than the economic sanctions: for example, in UN, representatives started to give “hard times” to South Africa (Have You Heard From Johannesburg?), and the Commonwealth, apart from its economic sanctions, made it clear that the organization was ready to exclude South Africa