Response to Sisonke Msimang on Mandela’s alleged domestic violence: debate  crucial but present readers with all relevant facts

It is important that we analyse Nelson Mandela with integrity, revealing any evidence that may assist us to understand him as a full human being. Continue reading

Raymond Suttner: Re-reading the Freedom Charter @ 60 (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/re-reading-the-freedom-charter-at-60-2015-06-24

Raymond Suttner: What type of leadership do we need to reinforce democracy and build an emancipatory project? (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/what-type-of-leadership-do-we-need-to-reinforce-democracy-and-build-an-emancipatory-project-2015-06-09

Raymond Suttner: Non-violence: purely a tactic or also a principle? (Polity video interview)

Raymond Suttner: Non-violence: the foundation for dialogue & peace between those who live in South Africa (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/non-violence-the-foundation-for-dialogue-and-peace-between-those-who-live-in-south-africa-2015-05-27

Eskom disarray and wider crisis of irregularity: how do we recover the promise of 1994?

http://www.polity.org.za/article/eskom-disarray-and-wider-crisis-of-irregularity-how-do-we-recover-the-promise-of-1994-2015-03-30

Raymond Suttner: South African parliament now and in the future (Heinrich Boll foundation)

http://za.boell.org/2015/03/16/south-african-parliament-now-and-future

Raymond Suttner: South Africa 20 years on: a state in crisis (The Africa Report)

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Brooks Spector: Review of Raymond Suttner’s recovering democracy in South Africa (Daily Maverick)

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-03-13-review-raymond-suttners-recovering-democracy-in-south-africa/#.VQMHnULN6-K

Raymond Suttner audio interview with Gareth Cliff 12 March 2015

Enuga Reddy: Gandhi and Africans

5-Gandhi and Africans

Launch of Recovering democracy in SA at the Troyeville Hotel

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Raymond Suttner: Citizens need to claim ethical leadership (English version Beeld article)

[Extract from Recovering Democracy, translated and printed in today’s Beeld, below] Continue reading

Raymond Suttner: Eis terug die demokrasie

http://www.netwerk24.com/stemme/2015-03-05-eis-terug-die-demokrasie

Raymond Suttner: Nelson Mandela’s masculinities

[This is an extract from the book Recovering democracy in South Africa that appeared in the Sunday Times under a different title yesterday] Continue reading

Press release on Raymond Suttner’s Recovering Democracy in SA (Jacana)

Recovering Democracy PR

RAYMOND SUTTNER: CAPE TOWN BOOK LAUNCHES RECOVERING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN LAUNCHES of RECOVERING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA CONFIRMED FOR 9 APRIL 2015 Continue reading

Confirmed book launches for Recovering Democracy in SA (21 February)

Update for launches of Recovering Democracy in South Africa (Jacana Media). Update 21 February 2015

Book availability. The book ought to be in the book stores late in the first week of March 2015 and e books will be available at a date to be announced.

The following launches have been confirmed thus far:

1.18 March 2015 Troyeville Hotel. Dinner starting 6 pm. In conversation with Anthony Altbeker. Flyer will be posted soon and bookings can be made with the hotel.

2. 19 March 2015, 6 p.m.Wits History Workshop/Wits Institute for Social and Econoic Research (WISER), launch at WISER Discussants: Dr Arianna Lissoni, Wits History Workshop and Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Refection (MISTRA). Flyer to be posted soon. Those who are not on mailing list and wish to be invited should please inbox me

3. 26 March 2015. Rhodes University launch , Humanities seminar room, 5.30 pm. Flyer to be posted.

4. 1 APRIL 2015, launch/ discussion at Poppy’s, 6-7th Street Melville starting 6 p.m, ending 7.15 pm. This will be followed by jazz band. Flyer to be posted.

5. Date in early April to be confirmed. 10 a.m. Launch & discussion at UCT Graduate School of Business. Part of their Roundtable series. Chair Professor Mills Soko. Discussant to be confirmed. Any person based at UCT wishing to be invited please inbox me.

6. The will be a public launch in Cape Town on the evening of UCT launch, details to be announced.

7. 15 April 2015. Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) hosts launch in Pietermaritzburg in late afternoon. Flyer to be posted

8. 23 April 2015. Steve Biko Foundation, Ginsburg, Eastern Cape, time to be confirmed. Flyer to be posted. Anyone wishing to attend who is not on SBF mailing list please inbox me. Flyer to be posted.

Further locations for launches are under discussion and will be posted as they are confirmed.

In conversation with @antonyaltbeker on Recovering Democracy in SA at Troyeville 18 March

Launch of Recovering Democracy in South Africa at Troyeville Hotel 18 March 2015
Raymond Suttner will be in conversation with Antony Altbeker. Supper served from 6.30 pm.

Confirmed launches :Recovering democracy in SA

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