Against the Tide by Steven Friedman

ANC leaders have been scorned recently for saying that the country is still living with the effects of apartheid. The mockery ignores the fact that many of apartheid's realities are still with us and so it is blind to the reality facing most people here. But the ANC has only itself to blame for the survival of apartheid's effects because it has not done nearly enough to end racial privilege.

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Steven Friedman is a public commentator and an academic, currently employed as a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He has been writing on South African politics for the entire democratic period both as a scholar and public commentator. He has published books on South Africa’s transition to democracy, the role of the trade union movement, and current South African politics. He has also written columns and articles for several South African newspapers. His writing seeks to use academic research to shed light on current politics but to ensure that this is conveyed in a way easily understood by people who have no academic training.