Political Analyst, Steven Friedman, has warned that the South African government has tried to curtail the rights of refugees from protesting against the countries from which they fled. Friedman was reacting to the gazetting of a set of regulations in the Refugees Amendment Act, which came into effect on the first of January. Some of the changes in the Act include preventing asylum seekers from participating in any political activity as well as clamping down on businesses and regulations on where they can work or go to school.
GUEST: Professor Steven Friedman, who is a professor of Political Studies at the University of Johannesburg