CRITIQUE OF THE 2009 NATIONAL ELECTIONS MANIFESTOS OF THE A.N.C. & C.O.P.E.
Dale T. McKinley (For the APF) - March 2009
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By their very definition, electoral manifestos are documents that are mainly designed to persuade people to vote for a particular political party. As such, they are essentially propaganda tools containing very broad ‘visions’ of the respective political parties, thinly sketched frameworks for societal development and a host of promises around more specific policy (...)

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