Category Archives: Contemporary South Africa
ANC comments on weight and dress sense of Lindiwe Mazibuko, DA parliamentary leader
Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)
Note: there are two separate links to be clicked on, one for the text and the other for the endnotes
This was a seminar paper, prepared for the University of the Witwatersrand, in June 1986, just before I was rearrested for a further 27 months. Continue reading
Mail &and Guardian editorial on labour turmoil and government partisanship to ANC-allied unions
Peacekeeping force likely to be used for partisan purposes
Diplomacy supporting homophobia (2010)
Political turmoil in North-West province
Political turmoil in North-West province
Political violence is now a conventional pattern of ANC politics, as people fight for positions, tenders and other resources amongst the ANC itself or against emerging rivals. Some of the government, ANC and SACP statements about AMCU and the ANC’s right to be the dominant force in the platinum belt, do not augur well for peaceful resolution of disputes and competition. The report indicates a growing crisis of legitimacy as well as a crisis of governance, with unsolved killings and threats of more, apart from (not reported here) continued high levels of dissatisfaction over subhuman living conditions.
SA government says attacks on foreign nationals are criminal not directed at their being foreign
SA government says attacks on foreign nationals are criminal not directed at their being foreign
Clearly the experience of foreign nationals, as reported in this article are very different from other people subjected to criminal activity and the government is in denial over the seriousness of these attacks.
Raymond Suttner:Need for real debate on South Africa’s future, (2008)
Attack on sexuality rights, by Raymond Suttner, 2010
Why is this election different from all previous ones:early evaluation of Zuma era
Apartheid distortions of customary laws rob women of land rights
Crisis of constitutionalism and legality
One of the features distinguishing post-Polokwane political developments has been the attack on constitutionalism and legality. Continue reading
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