Comments on: AU, SADC not proponents of democracy and human rights http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/au-sadc-not-proponents-of-democracy-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=au-sadc-not-proponents-of-democracy-and-human-rights Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Don Cox http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/au-sadc-not-proponents-of-democracy-and-human-rights/#comment-150413 Don Cox Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:45:17 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=861#comment-150413 “Democracy” is not just a bunch of fine words, but a complicated set of skills which are needed throughout society. To run a democracy, you need uncorrupt policemen, teachers who do not give private lessons on the side, politicians who accept the results of elections without question because they know the elections are honestly run, efficient tax collection, near universal literacy, and so on.

Most of the people who dominate African and Asian countries have no more understanding of democracy than they do of nuclear physics. It is obvious that Mugabe, for instance, simply cannot grasp the concept of losing an election.

However, this was equally true of Europe only a few decades ago. So there is hope.

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