Category Archives: Contemporary South Africa

Lionel Faull, Sam Sole, Architect of Zuma’s downfall

Nkandla: Architect of Zuma’s downfall?

Raymond Suttner, Citizens need to claim ethical leadership (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/citizens-need-to-claim-ethical-leadership-2014-08-14

Raymond Suttner, Nelson Mandela’s masculinities

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-nelson-mandelas-changing-manifestations-of-masculinity-2014-08-13

Raymond Suttner, No easy answers to questions of identity, culture and custom (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/no-easy-answers-to-questions-of-identity-culture-and-custom-2014-08-13

Susan Booysen, Ungovernable Government-auditor general’s local story

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/ungovernable-government-ag-s-local-story-1.1733079#.U-eDmFZCPwI

Raymond Suttner, Nelson Mandela’s masculinities (PDF file), Wiser seminar

http://wiser.wits.ac.za/content/nelson-mandelas-masculinities-11503

Raymond Suttner, 20 years of ‘unity in diversity’ (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/understanding-20-years-of-unity-in-diversity-2014-08-06

Raymond Suttner, To be radical is to act decisively relating to today’s problems (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/to-be-radical-is-to-act-decisively-in-relation-to-todays-problems-2014-08-06

Raymond Suttner, In marking women’s month, let us name and unpack patriarchy (Polity interview)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-in-marking-womens-month-lets-name-and-unpack-patriarchy-2014-08-06

Rebecca Davis on the Rise of Sweden’s Feminist initiative

The Swedish Feminist Initiative which has not yet won a seat in the Swedish parliament Continue reading →

Marianne Thamm, Women’s month, women’s bodies as a landscape of trauma

In the course of wider issues of violation of women’s bodies, Marianne Thamm interprets the actions of ‘Brave heart’ the young woman who removed her clothes before the statue of Mandela

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-08-04-womens-month-womens-bodies-as-a-landscape-of-trauma/#.U99BR1ZCPwI

William Beinart, Verwoerd, Zuma & Chiefs (Custom contested

Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs

Raymond Suttner, What does it mean to be radical in South Africa today? (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/what-does-it-mean-to-be-radical-in-south-africa-today-2014-07-30

Raymond Suttner discusses ‘Tribes’, nations and other identities (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/tribe-nation-and-other-identities-2014-07-30

Raymond Suttner, 20 years of democracy and question of popular participation (published in Grace &Truth)

Twenty years of Democracy – Raymond Suttner

Video of Graca Machel’s talk on identities interrogating Samora Machel’s statement ‘for the nation to live, the tribe must die’

http://www.mistra.org.za/SitePages/Video.aspx?VideoID=20

Graca Machel reflects on African identity and Samora Machel’s statement ‘for the nation to live, the tribe must die

Click to access MISTRA%20Third%20Annual%20Lecture%20presented%20by%20Mrs%20Graca%20Machel%20PDF.pdf

Raymond Suttner, The Economic Freedom Fighters politics of dress (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/the-economic-freedom-fighters-politics-of-dress-2014-07-23

Raymond Suttner, Can we make parliament represent the people? (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/can-we-make-parliament-represent-the-people-2014-07-22

Raymond Suttner, Parliament -1994 and today (Polity video)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-parliament-1994-and-today-2014-07-22