Steven Friedman Columnist

Steven Friedman is director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. He is a political scientist focusing on the study of democracy, and he writes a weekly column for Business Day newspaper.

STEVEN FRIEDMAN: A new menace is stalking the land, yet no-one is talking about it
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Vaccination is not going to be enough to beat the pandemic
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Shouting at the government obscures many other ills
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Time to have second thoughts about the second wave
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Growing racial divide in US sends important message to SA
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Growth will remain elusive unless the government consults the marginalised
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Plenty of good reasons to keep the Covid-19 grant
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Debate on tracing app sidelines issue of beating Covid-19
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: DA may have doomed its own voters to permanent opposition
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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: How the ANC squabble over corruption gives the state more cards to play
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