Category Archives: Armed struggle

Nelson Mandela, First TV interview 1961 ‘Closing chapter on non-violence’

This interview is significant amongst other reasons for Mandela’s statement that after state show of force Continue reading →

Raymond Suttner, video interview on lessons from Chris Hani’s life (Polity)

Chris Hani (Afravision film)

Pallo Jordan, The day Mandela saved SA from veering off course

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/04/10/the-day-mandela-saved-sa-from-veering-off-course

Raymond Suttner, Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’

http://www.polity.org.za/article/chief-albert-luthuli-and-the-gospel-of-service-2014-03-11

Richard Pithouse Celebrating a murderous state

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1919/print

Raymond Suttner, video interview on early Mandela, relationship with Sisulu and Mandela’s masculinities

Raymond Suttner video interview on ethical significance of Mandela’s court appearances

http://www.polity.org.za/article/mandela-on-trial-its-meaning-for-us-today-2014-01-20

Kerry Chance: Engaging with the binary of Madiba the icon versus Madiba the sell out and triumph of liberal democracy

http://www.theconmag.co.za/2013/12/17/what-the-american-press-got-wrong-about-nelson-mandela-the-icon-the-sellout-and-the-triumph-of-liberal-democracy/

Pallo Jordan, Mandela understood the complexities of his role

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/12/19/mandela-understood-the-complexities-of-his-role

CIA involvement in Mandela arrest in 1962

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the

Raymond Suttner, On Mandela’s models of masculinity

The youth can take a leaf out of the book of a man in touch with his masculinity

Raymond Suttner interview on Mandela on SABC3 (starts 12-13th minute of video)

Raymond Suttner, Mandela puts apartheid on trial, 1962 and Rivonia trials

When Mandela was captured in 1962 the police did not know that he had been overseas for military training and that he was Commander in Chief of the recently formed Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the nation, (MK).
http://www.polity.org.za/article/mandela-on-trial-its-meaning-for-us-today-2013-12-09

Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/negotiator-who-outmanoeuvred-pw-1.1618656#.UqSWPqXH1SU

Professsor Philip Bonner reflects on Mandela’s life in video

Palesa Morudu, Remember the past and question the present

Palesa Morudu on the symbolic reburial of her brother, Moss Morudu, whose whereabouts and details of whose death have only become known to the family in recent times.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/10/29/remember-the-past-and-question-the-present

Raymond Suttner, Response to comments on my article in the Mail and Guardian of 27 September 2013

I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading →

Nomboniso Gasa on patriarchy in history and SA today