One objective of the NWA of 1998 is to ensure the
inclusiveness of participants who have interest or have been
affected by issues to be discussed. According to Khan [17],
participatory democracy which strives for the involvement of
all citizens is seen as the means of giving people especially
those at the grassroots level a voice in decision-making in
South Africa. In the view of Kessler, [18], however,
participation process cannot include all citizens because it
will neither be useful nor possible and can lead to alienation
due to the large number of people that the process may attract
which will be constrain by space, time and money. Reliance
has therefore been placed on community based organizations
(CBOs), environmental groups and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) in modern democracies in expressing
the views of citizens, under the assumption that those
channels of communication are easily accessible to citizens