Updated information on confirmed launches of Recovering Democracy in South Africa (Jacana publishers) confirmed thus far: Continue reading
Category Archives: street committees
Raymond Suttner: Meanings of Freedom Charter not obvious, need debate (Polity)
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, Can we make parliament represent the people? (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Who can we trust to do our policing? South African Police Services (SAPS) or Private security?
Some years ago I argued that the private security industry (PSI) should be phased out Continue reading
Raymond Suttner, Response to comments on my article in the Mail and Guardian of 27 September 2013
I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading
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Raymond Suttner, Popular Justice in South Africa today, June 1986 (Unpublished)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
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