Julian Brown

Julian Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the author of South Africa’s Insurgent Citizens and The Road to Soweto.

Do South Africans really have the right to protest?

South Africans’ right to protest exists on paper, but authorities have effectively suppressed dissent by making it too dangerous. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate: Human Rights: mass or elite movement?

By Julian Brown

/ 8 Jun 2016