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Powerful, united civil society needed to speak for the poor and marginalised.(News)
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Cape Times (South Africa)
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December 27, 2007
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BYLINE: Ebrahim Harvey
What does the political crisis in the ruling alliance and the growing social crisis in our country have to do with civil society? Everything.
But unfortunately civil society has been on the steady decline since the watershed 1994 democratic elections. During the anti-apartheid struggles, we had a vibrant and powerful civil society which made anything look possible to achieve.
Today, except for social movements, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and pockets of civic involvement, we have had a regrettable decline in civil society.
The problem is that the greater the social and political crisis, the more important and urgent it is ...
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