Category Archives: Contemporary South Africa

The ANC’s January 8 statement: then and now (Polity 9 January 2017)

http://polity.org.za/article/the-ancs-january-8-anniversary-statement-then-and-now-2017-01-09#disqus_thread

Space for racism to go undetected in courts (Polity video_

Democracy beyond electoralism (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/democracy-beyond-electoralism-2016-05-12

Raymond Suttner: What is radical today? (Polity video interview)

Raymond Suttner: Debating democracy to create an informed and active citizenry (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/debating-democracy-to-create-an-informed-and-active-citizenry-2015-05-12

Launch of Recovering Democracy in SA at Book Lounge Cape Town, with Rebecca Davis, 9 April 2015 (photographs)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152880369691169.1073741917.93709426168&type=1

Raymond Suttner: ‘Party loyalty’, patronage and the future of SA parliament (The Con)

http://www.theconmag.co.za/2015/04/01/party-loyalty-patronage-and-the-future-of-the-south-african-parliament/

Eskom disarray and wider crisis of irregularity: how do we recover the promise of 1994?

http://www.polity.org.za/article/eskom-disarray-and-wider-crisis-of-irregularity-how-do-we-recover-the-promise-of-1994-2015-03-30

Raymond Suttner: South African parliament now and in the future (Heinrich Boll foundation)

http://za.boell.org/2015/03/16/south-african-parliament-now-and-future

Raymond Suttner: South Africa 20 years on: a state in crisis (The Africa Report)

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Brooks Spector: Review of Raymond Suttner’s recovering democracy in South Africa (Daily Maverick)

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-03-13-review-raymond-suttners-recovering-democracy-in-south-africa/#.VQMHnULN6-K

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

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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 →