Against the Tide by Steven Friedman

The Minister of Home Affairs will no doubt hotly deny this, but his new White Paper on immigration is full to the brim with colonial thinking. So are most of the attitudes to immigrants which are all over the media here and are shared by all the political parties.

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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.