Monthly Archives: July 2014

Raymond Suttner, What does it mean to be radical in South Africa today? (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/what-does-it-mean-to-be-radical-in-south-africa-today-2014-07-30

Raymond Suttner discusses ‘Tribes’, nations and other identities (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/tribe-nation-and-other-identities-2014-07-30

Raymond Suttner, EFF, ANC and imagery (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/eff-anc-and-imagery-2014-07-30

Ilan Pappe (Israeli Professor) Israel has chosen to be a racist state with US support

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/28/professor_ilan_pappe_israel_has_chosen

Raymond Suttner, 20 years of democracy and question of popular participation (published in Grace &Truth)

Twenty years of Democracy – Raymond Suttner

Video of Graca Machel’s talk on identities interrogating Samora Machel’s statement ‘for the nation to live, the tribe must die’

http://www.mistra.org.za/SitePages/Video.aspx?VideoID=20

Graca Machel reflects on African identity and Samora Machel’s statement ‘for the nation to live, the tribe must die

Click to access MISTRA%20Third%20Annual%20Lecture%20presented%20by%20Mrs%20Graca%20Machel%20PDF.pdf

Raymond Suttner, The Economic Freedom Fighters politics of dress (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/the-economic-freedom-fighters-politics-of-dress-2014-07-23

Raymond Suttner, Can we make parliament represent the people? (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/can-we-make-parliament-represent-the-people-2014-07-22

Raymond Suttner, Parliament -1994 and today (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-parliament-1994-and-today-2014-07-22

Arundhati Roy on Gandhi fails to examine complexity

Arundhati Roy has attacked Gandhi on caste, saying that buildings etc should no longer be named after him etc etc. There must be debate on Gandhi and Mandela and many others, but with due regard for the complexity of their views. Just one quotation from Gandhi on 24 January 1928 illustrates this. ’I am clear in my mind that there is no room for castes in the Hindu faith…’

Pierre de Vos uncovers the legal implications behind Hlaudi Motsoeneng appointment

Hlaudi weather: The fog is even thicker than it looks

Raymond Suttner, Does parliament represent the people? (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/does-parliament-represent-the-people-2014-07-17

Raymond Suttner, Building vibrant culture needs debate (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/building-vibrant-cultures-needs-debate-2014-07-16

Raymond Suttner, Feed the child-charity and human dignity (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/feed-the-child-charity-and-human-dignity-2014-07-16

Nadine Gordimer: Nelson Mandela

‘Mandela: not a figure carved in stone but a tall man, of flesh and blood, whose suffering had made him not vengeful but still more human—even toward the people who had created the prison that was apartheid.’

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/12/16/131216ta_talk_gordimer