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With the advent of democracy in South Africa during the early to mid-1990s, favorable conditions would emerge for this country’s faith-based organizations to present themselves as constructive partners of the new African National Congress (ANC)-led democratic state (the ANC won South Africa’s first democratic elections by a large majority in April 1994 and has remained the governing party ever since).
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Swart, I. (2023). Faith-Based Organizations and the Challenge of Developmental Social Welfare in Democratic South Africa. In: Glatzer, M., Manuel, P.C., Gustafson, C.A. (eds) Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare. Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31960-0_5
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