Category Archives: democratisation

Why Abahlali endorsed DA. S’bu Zikode speaks

http://groundup.org.za/content/why-abahlali-endorsed-da-sbu-zikode-speaks-groundup

Jay Naidoo: Cosatu in the eye of the storm

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2014-04-27-cosatu-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/#.U15rqF5CPwI

Sanitation summit: Our dignity is undermined (Ground up)

http://www.groundup.org.za/content/sanitation-summit-our-dignity-undermined

Raymond Suttner, Electoral silence on patriarchy speaks volumes (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/electoral-silence-on-patriarchy-speaks-volumes-2014-04-23

Raymond Suttner, The vote is fundamental right but democracy more than electoralism (Polity video)

Douglas Ntozakhe Mthukwane Remembers Chris Hani and his death

Note: I have published this article at the request of the author, who is a freelance writer.  There are one or two aspects with which I do not agree, but I believe it is right to provide an outlet for his writing insofar as I am able .

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Richard Pithouse on the Vote No campaign

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1977

Raymond Suttner, Why I do not say how people should use their vote (Polity article)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/why-i-do-not-say-how-people-should-use-their-vote-2014-04-15

Pallo Jordan, The day Mandela saved SA from veering off course

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/04/10/the-day-mandela-saved-sa-from-veering-off-course

Raymond Suttner, Politics without politics (Polity website)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/politics-without-politics-2014-04-09

Raymond Suttner, Video interview: Defending constitutionalism (Polity)_

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-defending-constitutionalism-2014-04-08

Raymond Suttner Video interview with Polity on ‘Is there a crisis and what can we do about it?’

http://www.polity.org.za/article/is-there-a-crisis-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-2014-04-08

Susan Booysen, Nkandla-the ANC’s house of cards

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/nkandla-the-anc-s-house-of-cards-1.1671773

Richard Pithouse, Taking politics beyond factory seriously

http://readingfanon.blogspot.com/2014/03/taking-politics-beyond-factory-seriously.html

Richard Pithouse,The urban land question

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1965?frommailing=1

Video: The aftermath of Nkandla, Raymond Suttner Polity Interview

http://www.polity.org.za/article/the-aftermath-of-nkandla-2014-04-02

Raymond Suttner, Building a united front, Polity Video interview

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-building-a-united-front-2014-04-02

Raymond Suttner, Building unity to restore democratic rule. (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/building-unity-to-restore-democratic-rule-2014-03-31

Nomboniso Gasa, on change through “The Good People in the ANC” argument

I don’t buy the “good people in the ANC” argument. I believe they are there and they are many. I am not sure that makes a compelling argument to vote for the ANC. If we have learnt anything about how organisations and social change work, it is the complexity of changing patterns that have already set it.

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Raymond Suttner, Nkandla signifies our disenfranchisement (Polity article)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/nkandla-signifies-our-disenfranchisement-2014-03-25