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The nature of apartheid regime undermined South Africa’s claim of being a democratic polity.

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  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The statement points to a gap between form and substance — a state that dressed itself in the vocabulary of parliamentary democracy while functioning as a racial authoritarian order.

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  • The Formal-Democratic Facade
  • Substantive Disenfranchisement of the Majority
  • The Bantustan "Self-Government" Fig Leaf
  • Suppression of Civil Liberties and the Security State
  • International Judgment on the Contradiction

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