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    CIVIL SOCIETY action is the politics of the future

    Oct 25, 2020 6 minutes
    PHOTO: BLOOMBERG / GETTY IMAGES

    The Donald Trump soap opera and America’s election season have overshadowed what may be the most significant lesson for South Africans – the extraordinary resurgence of civil society.

    The day after Trump was inaugurated as US president in January 2017, at least 5 million people joined in a women’s march – the largest demonstration in the history of the US.

    The anger and shock were not just at the election of a misogynistic reality TV star who had admitted on tape to groping women, but against a system in which white men still hold 80% of all leadership positions.

    Activism by women has widened the gender gap between Democrats and Republicans to such an extent that if Joe Biden wins on November 3, it will be largely thanks to women who support him by historic margins. The resistance that began with that march was not just a one-day event. For the past four

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