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Title:Nurturing democratic elections for good governance and African renaissance
Author:Teffo, Lesiba JosephISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:International Journal of African Renaissance Studies (ISSN 1753-7274)
Volume:9
Issue:1
Pages:115-129
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
South Africa
Subjects:elections
governance
leadership
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.916882
Abstract:The role of good governance underpinned by human rights, sound ethical principles and values has been identified as an appropriate pillar necessary for to improve the living conditions of the citizens in the current information age and knowledge economies. This article argues that to get the right people to practise good governance requires periodic democratic elections. The article contends that credible and legitimate electoral results are the necessary, if not sufficient conditions for good governance and attendant development. Effectively, the two are mutually inclusive and not exclusive. It concludes that history attests that their coexistence has in the main yielded success and development wherever they jointly obtain. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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