Steven Friedman
Steven Friedman
Steven Eli Friedmanis a South African academic, newspaper columnist, widely quoted public intellectual, activist, former trade unionist and journalist. He directs the Centre for the Study of Democracy at both Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. His book Building Tomorrow Today: African Workers in Trade Unions 1970-1984 has been described as a classic South African text. He has written regular opinion pieces for Thought Leader and The New Age and currently writes a weekly column for Business Day...
nice pressure putting
They will say mildly nice things about Mugabe in public, but keep putting pressure on him in private.
african christian democratic fault group issue join justifies major party people percent political social society wins
It's not one of our political fault lines. The major issue in this society is race. That's why people join political parties. The party of social conservatism is African Christian Democratic Party, which wins one percent of the vote. And that's the group of people who feel that this justifies amending the constitution.
culture party
This probably comes from the old Progressive Party culture.