The importance of the media in a democratic country such as South Africa is that <span>the difference between the print media to the electronic media is that print media is not that expensive. Example newspapers. Electronic media like radio is </span><span>not ta</span>ngible and is expensive. It can be heard world wide and It also takes less time to give out information.
Because the independent nations had different policies which made it harder for the british to support the other people of the democracy. They were more "challnged".