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Confirmed launches :Recovering democracy in SA

Updated information on confirmed launches of Recovering Democracy in South Africa (Jacana publishers) confirmed thus far: Continue reading →

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Posted on February 10, 2015 by raymondsuttner. Posted in Abahlali baseMjondolo, ANC, Armed struggle, Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), Basic services, Congress of South African Trade Unions(COSATU), Constitutional Court, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, corruption, Culture and identities, Democratic Alliance (DA), Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), emancipation, Evictions, Exile, Freedom Charter, Gandhi, Gender and sexuality, Housing, human rights, Interview, Jacob Zuma, Land, Leadership, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Negotiations, Nelson Mandela, Nkandla, Parliament, Patriarchy, patronage, Policing, Popular power, prosecution, Public Protector, Public/private, racism, Rape, Raymond Suttner writings, SACP, street committees, Thabo Mbeki, Theoretical questions, trade unions, UDF, Umkhonto we Sizwe, ungovernability, United front, Walter Sisulu | Tagged combatting defeatism, empowering with undrstanding, recovering democracy | 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 on Alex Boraine’s suggestion that exile culture is responsible for current undermining democracy (Polity interview)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/suttners-view-alex-boraines-suggestion-that-exile-is-responsible-for-undermining-democracy-2014-04-29

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Posted on April 29, 2014 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Contemporary South Africa, Exile, Interview, popular justice, Popular power, Theoretical questions, UDF, Violence | Tagged Exile culture diverse, exile experience in frontline state faced continued dangers, much debate but decisions were of necessity taken at top, popular power period and conditions for success, Robben Island debates also often decided to appeal for authoritative decisions at top, UDF also had centralising tendencies depending on level of repression, UDF ought not to be romanticised and exile demonised | Leave a comment

Chris Hani (Afravision film)

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Posted on April 12, 2014 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Chris Hani, Contemporary South Africa, emancipation, Exile, Heroism, Interview, Theoretical questions, Underground struggle, Violence | Tagged acceptance of decision, negotiations, personal motivations, readiness for battle, suspension of armed action, Wankie campaign | Leave a comment

Raymond Suttner interview with Polity on loss of trust and legitimacy and ways of remedying and recovering our

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Posted on February 19, 2014 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, City planning, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, corruption, democratisation, emancipation, Environment, Exile, Housing, human rights, Interview, Jacob Zuma, Land, Local government, patronage, Policing, prosecution, Theoretical questions, Underground struggle | Tagged diagnose problem, Loss of legitimacy, need to recover and create systems to realise our rights, need to uncover range of relationships that undermine constitutionalism, not just Zuma, Traditional Courts bill rural voices | 12 Comments

Richard Pithouse Celebrating a murderous state

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1919/print

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Posted on February 18, 2014 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, corruption, democratisation, emancipation, Exile, Gender and sexuality, human rights, Jacob Zuma, Masculinity, Policing | Tagged off stage killing of black people and the poor and other vulnerable groups, Pageant of opening of parliament, red carpet | Leave a comment

Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/negotiator-who-outmanoeuvred-pw-1.1618656#.UqSWPqXH1SU

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Posted on December 8, 2013 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Chris Hani, Contemporary South Africa, democratisation, emancipation, Exile, Heroism, human rights, International, Nelson Mandela, Theoretical questions, United States of America | Tagged both a giant and like all of us, former Minister under Mandela and ANC leader, Mandela's tactical skill in negotiating end of apartheid, Pallo Jordan | 1 Comment

Film on Israeli repression against African immigrants

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-video-israeli-racism-new-york-times-didnt-want-you-see

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Posted on October 19, 2013 by raymondsuttner. Posted in Africa, African migrants, Apartheid Israel, Exile, human rights, International, Violence | Tagged fillm commissioned and suppressed by NYTimes, Israeli racists build prisons for migrants, Refugees from Africa to Israel, threats and violence | Leave a comment

Raymond Suttner: Decisions/concessions made by the Mandela-led ANC during the transition towards post-apartheid South Africa

The transcript and interview with Professor Sampie Terreblanche (link at the end of this article) provides insights Continue reading →

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Posted on August 11, 2013 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Chris Hani, Contemporary South Africa, democratisation, Exile, International, Nelson Mandela, Popular power, Raymond Suttner writings, socialism, Theoretical questions, UDF | Tagged ANC leadership bought off, ANC not socialist, Department of Economic Policy (DEP), elite transition, expectations of membership, National Executive Committee (NEC), policy making, popular role, requirements of governing, secret talks, transition from apartheid, Washington consensus | 2 Comments

Nomboniso Gasa on patriarchy in history and SA today

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Posted on August 6, 2013 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Armed struggle, Chris Hani, Constitutionalism, Contemporary South Africa, Culture and identities, emancipation, Exile, Gender and sexuality, Heroism, Masculinity, Rape, trade unions, UDF, Underground struggle, Violence | Tagged entitlement, invisible abuse, Nomboniso Gasa, Patriarchy in SA history, Power relations, range of sites of abuse and patriarchy, struggle patriarchy and gender sensitivity, women's bodies, Zwelinzima Vavi | Leave a comment

Michael Neocosmos, ‘From Peoples’ Politics to State Politics: Aspects of National Liberation in South Africa’

An important article on the displacement of popular power and the UDF from the mid 1980s onwards. It is a chapter in Adebayo O. Olukoshi (ed), The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa. Nordic Africa Institute. 1998.

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Posted on June 24, 2013 by raymondsuttner. Posted in ANC, Contemporary South Africa, democratisation, emancipation, Exile, human rights, popular justice, Popular power, street committees, Theoretical questions, UDF, Underground struggle, ungovernability, Violence | Tagged Mahmood Mamdani, Michael Neocosmos | Leave a comment

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