Category Archives: Contemporary South Africa
Space for racism to go undetected in courts (Polity video_
Democracy beyond electoralism (Polity)
Raymond Suttner: What is radical today? (Polity video interview)
Raymond Suttner: Debating democracy to create an informed and active citizenry (Polity)
Launch of Recovering Democracy in SA at Book Lounge Cape Town, with Rebecca Davis, 9 April 2015 (photographs)
Raymond Suttner: ‘Party loyalty’, patronage and the future of SA parliament (The Con)
Eskom disarray and wider crisis of irregularity: how do we recover the promise of 1994?
Raymond Suttner: South African parliament now and in the future (Heinrich Boll foundation)
Raymond Suttner: South Africa 20 years on: a state in crisis (The Africa Report)
Brooks Spector: Review of Raymond Suttner’s recovering democracy in South Africa (Daily Maverick)
Raymond Suttner audio interview with Gareth Cliff 12 March 2015
Raymond Suttner: Chris Hani and the leadership we have lost
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
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
Enuga Reddy: Gandhi and Africans
Raymond Suttner: Parliamentary upheavals: heightened political awareness? (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Bidding to host the Commonwealth games- a foolish, risky step
According to the documentation motivating for SA’s bid to host the Commonwealth games in 2022, Continue reading
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: 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