Chris Hani and the leadership we have lost
In the 1991 SACP Congress when Chris Hani was elected General Secretary he took a decision that was meant to indicate that his future lay with building the Communist Party Continue reading
Category Archives: ANC
The IEC head, Steven Friedman and credible polls
The question of the potential head of the IEC being someone closely associated with the ANC Continue reading
Dr Enuga Reddy: Gandhi and the formation of the ANC
Enuga Reddy: Gandhi and Africans
Launch of Recovering democracy in SA at the Troyeville Hotel
Raymond Suttner: Parliamentary upheavals: heightened political awareness? (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Attacks on foreign migrants are attacks on freedom of all
Raymond Suttner: Citizens need to claim ethical leadership (English version Beeld article)
[Extract from Recovering Democracy, translated and printed in today’s Beeld, below] Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: Eis terug die demokrasie
Raymond Suttner: Nelson Mandela’s masculinities
[This is an extract from the book Recovering democracy in South Africa that appeared in the Sunday Times under a different title yesterday] Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: An attack on a foreign migrant is an attack on us all (Polity)
While the extent of xenophobic attacks may not be widely known, the broad facts are relatively clear. Continue reading
Nomboniso Gasa: King’s culture call is all about land
Nomboniso Gasa: Post 1994 land laws mimic apartheid
Press release on Raymond Suttner’s Recovering Democracy in SA (Jacana)
RAYMOND SUTTNER: CAPE TOWN BOOK LAUNCHES RECOVERING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN LAUNCHES of RECOVERING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA CONFIRMED FOR 9 APRIL 2015 Continue reading
Confirmed book launches for Recovering Democracy in SA (21 February)
Update for launches of Recovering Democracy in South Africa (Jacana Media). Update 21 February 2015
Book availability. The book ought to be in the book stores late in the first week of March 2015 and e books will be available at a date to be announced.
The following launches have been confirmed thus far:
1.18 March 2015 Troyeville Hotel. Dinner starting 6 pm. In conversation with Anthony Altbeker. Flyer will be posted soon and bookings can be made with the hotel.
2. 19 March 2015, 6 p.m.Wits History Workshop/Wits Institute for Social and Econoic Research (WISER), launch at WISER Discussants: Dr Arianna Lissoni, Wits History Workshop and Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Refection (MISTRA). Flyer to be posted soon. Those who are not on mailing list and wish to be invited should please inbox me
3. 26 March 2015. Rhodes University launch , Humanities seminar room, 5.30 pm. Flyer to be posted.
4. 1 APRIL 2015, launch/ discussion at Poppy’s, 6-7th Street Melville starting 6 p.m, ending 7.15 pm. This will be followed by jazz band. Flyer to be posted.
5. Date in early April to be confirmed. 10 a.m. Launch & discussion at UCT Graduate School of Business. Part of their Roundtable series. Chair Professor Mills Soko. Discussant to be confirmed. Any person based at UCT wishing to be invited please inbox me.
6. The will be a public launch in Cape Town on the evening of UCT launch, details to be announced.
7. 15 April 2015. Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) hosts launch in Pietermaritzburg in late afternoon. Flyer to be posted
8. 23 April 2015. Steve Biko Foundation, Ginsburg, Eastern Cape, time to be confirmed. Flyer to be posted. Anyone wishing to attend who is not on SBF mailing list please inbox me. Flyer to be posted.
Further locations for launches are under discussion and will be posted as they are confirmed.
Raymond Suttner: Zuma period: Depoliticised but distinct character
When I said that the current period in SA politics is depoliticised Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: Living in depoliticised times
We are living in depoliticised times. Continue reading
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