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Article: One-Party State Fine for One in Five - Survey.
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- The Namibian
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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One in five South Africans polled in an Africa-wide survey would approve of a one-party state, according to results released yesterday.
And one in three believe the president should be able to pass laws without referring to Parliament.
The Afrobarometer survey, carried out in 2008, covered 26 414 interviewees in 19 African countries, 2 400 of them in South Africa.
It found that 67 per cent of South Africans questioned were in support of democracy, rather than authoritarian alternatives such as military regimes.
Roughly the same percentage disapproved of the idea of a one-party state.
However, 21 per cent approved of a ...