Tag: majoritarianism

Modern day states are characterised by an implicit admission that everyone who is living under them, consents to be governed by them. Yet when one looks at the world, in any society, there is always a large portion of people who not only disagree with authority but actively did not consent to it by voting differently or not at all. Are the views of these people not important because they represent a minority?

Law has been used as an instrument of terror towards indigenous South Africans. After all the terrorism that saw the displacement of the jurisdiction of aboriginal Black South Africans replaced with the jurisdiction of South Africa was ‘legal’.