Category Archives: popular justice
Raymond Suttner, Popular power, constitutional democracy and crisis: 1994-2014
Raymond Suttner, 20 years of democracy and question of popular participation (published in Grace &Truth)
Raymond Suttner, Is popular power a realistic option? (Polity Video)
Raymond Suttner on Alex Boraine’s suggestion that exile culture is responsible for current undermining democracy (Polity interview)
The Traditional courts bill is dead!
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.
Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)
Note: there are two separate links to be clicked on, one for the text and the other for the endnotes
This was a seminar paper, prepared for the University of the Witwatersrand, in June 1986, just before I was rearrested for a further 27 months. Continue reading