What does compartmentalization mean? The term is at the heart of the Great Seat Belt Debate. It was coined during the 1967 and 1972 Series 1 and Serie...
Many Africans consider the Western model of political democracy to be extremely narrow and even alien to African cultures. Democracy is not merely the right to vote and seize power, the Rev. Jose Belo Chipenda, General Secretary, All Africa Conferenc e of Churches (AACC) has said.
After the Second World War instruments of direct democracy became important in many other countries, Italy, Australia, South Africa and Ecuador, for example . Direct Democracy, as a complement to our indirect Representative (Parliamentary) Democracy, is not idealistic nonsense from the past. It is an extremely practical idea...not least at provincial and local level.