Against the Tide by Steven Friedman

Another voter registration weekend has come and gone. But why should South Africans need to register to vote? Voting is a human right and we should not need to stand in lines and fill out forms to claim a right which ever human should have.

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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.