IDASA
Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa
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In September 1986, Frederick van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine announced that the Institute for a Democratic Alternative (Idasa) would be launched to debate and imagine what a non-racial democracy in South Africa could and should look like. The Institute would encourage white South Africans to talk and engage with black South Africans through regional and national forums set up to oppose apartheid structures. For more than two decades Idasa became synonymous with the process of political change in South Africa.