South Africa: Who Is the Real Representative of Public Interest - Parliament or the Media?

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We know who's supposed to guard the guardians but who represents the South African voice? Surely not journalists and vocal civil society groups? If so, we're becoming an elistist democracy.

I think it was Museveni of Uganda who famously declared, after having ruled the country for a quarter of a century, that no one else had the vision and therefore could lead his country. It's not hard to imagine that many of his critics, particularly the democrats, would have found this assertion something of an outrage.

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