Raymond Suttner: Meanings of Freedom Charter not obvious, need debate (Polity)

http://www.polity.org.za/article/meanings-of-the-freedom-charter-are-not-obvious-need-debate-2015-01-21

Raymond Suttner, Popular power, constitutional democracy and crisis: 1994-2014

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Raymond Suttner, 20 years of democracy and question of popular participation (published in Grace &Truth)

Twenty years of Democracy – Raymond Suttner

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)

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

The Traditional courts bill is dead!

Traditional Courts Bill is dead!

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

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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Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)

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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