South Africa, however, was a one-party democracy. The ANC'S closest
rival in the 1999 election (see below), the Democratic party, won less than
10 percent of the vote. Other African states, such as South Africa's neigh-
bor Zimbabwe, that had once been one-party democracies had ended up
as one-party dictatorships; and already there were signs of disrespect for
the rights of opposition parties. Stanley Uys, a former political editor of
the Johannesburg Sunday Times, noted that at the ANC'S December 1997
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