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Raymond Suttner: Cultural sensitivities and sentencing of Thembu King (Polity video interview)

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Posted on October 11, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in Constitutionalism, Contralesa, courts, custom, Thembu royalty | Tagged Supreme Court of Appeal | Leave a comment

Raymond Suttner: Court recognises rights of rural community (Polity video interview)

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Posted on September 7, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in custom, Eastern Cape High Court, living custom | Tagged community rights, local democracy, traditional leaders | Leave a comment

Raymond Suttner: Eastern Cape Court affirms community’s democratic right to elect headman (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/eastern-cape-courts-affirm-communitys-democratic-right-to-elect-headman-2015-08-21

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Posted on September 7, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in Constitutionalism, custom, democracy, Traditional Leaders | Tagged Cala reserve, Eastern Cape High Court, election of headman, Judge Clive Plasket | Leave a comment

Nomboniso Gasa: King’s culture call is all about land

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2015/02/27/kings-culture-call-is-all-about-land

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Posted on February 28, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, Culture and identities, custom, democratisation, emancipation, Gender and sexuality, human rights, Jacob Zuma, Land, Leadership, Nomboniso Gasa writings, Parliament, Patriarchy, patronage | Tagged King Goodwill Zwelithini, Land Claims, landless poor, traditional leaders | Leave a comment

Raymond Suttner: Freedom Charter can only survive if it is debated (Polity video)

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Posted on January 28, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Contemporary South Africa, Culture and identities, custom, democratisation, Economy, emancipation, Freedom Charter, human rights, Interview, Theoretical questions | Tagged culture, custom, Freedom Charter today, nationalisation, traditional leaders | Leave a comment

Recovering democracy in SA to appear February

My book: Recovering democracy in South Africa will be published by Jacana Media in February. Continue reading →

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Posted on January 27, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Basic services, Chief Albert Luthuli, Congress of South African Trade Unions(COSATU), Constitutional Court, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, corruption, Culture and identities, custom, Democratic Alliance (DA), democratisation, Economic Freedom Fighters, emancipation, Exile, Freedom Charter, Gandhi, Gender and sexuality, Heroism, Housing, human rights, Jacob Zuma, Land, Leadership, Local government, Masculinity, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Negotiations, Nelson Mandela, Nkandla, Oliver Tambo, Parliament, Patriarchy, patronage, Policing, Popular power, prosecution, Public Protector, Public/private, Rape, Raymond Suttner writings, SACP, SACP history, Thabo Mbeki, Theoretical questions, UDF, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Underground struggle, ungovernability, United front, Violence, Walter Sisulu | Tagged February 2015, Jacana publishers, recovering democracy | 1 Comment

Raymond Suttner: Freedom Charter is not a check list (Polity video)

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Posted on January 13, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Contemporary South Africa, Culture and identities, custom, democratisation, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Economy, emancipation, Freedom Charter, human rights, Interview, Julius Malema, Land, Popular power, Theoretical questions | Tagged Charter not like shopping list, draw on experiences of 1980s, interpret contextually, meaning today, Popular power period, spirit more important than every word | Leave a comment

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