Category Archives: Theoretical questions
Raymond Suttner interview with Chris Vick on Powerfm on COSATU divisions and other issues
Raymond Suttner video interview with Polity on countrywide risings and the crisis of leadership
Raymond Suttner video interview with Polity on NUMSA project
Stuart Hall’s cultural legacy. Britain under the microscope
Raymond Suttner, Loss of trust and legitimacy result in ungovernability
Raymond Suttner, Are developments in NUMSA moving towards an emancipatory project?
Raymond Suttner, Interview with Polity, addressing political expression additional to voting
Raymond Suttner, Realignments in South African politics
Kwanele Sosibo, On dynamics within the EFF
Raymond Suttner: ANC crisis-is NUMSA giving us a lead?
I have posted reports on the NUMSA impending split from the ANC ,SACP and possibly COSATU as a whole. Continue reading
Matuma Letsoalo, Mmanaledi Mataboge, Gatvol Numsa turns off ANC tap
Raymond Suttner interview on Mandela on SABC3 (starts 12-13th minute of video)
Raymond Suttner, Mandela puts apartheid on trial, 1962 and Rivonia trials
When Mandela was captured in 1962 the police did not know that he had been overseas for military training and that he was Commander in Chief of the recently formed Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the nation, (MK).
http://www.polity.org.za/article/mandela-on-trial-its-meaning-for-us-today-2013-12-09
Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela
Land question in South Africa with Nomboniso Gasa, Leon Louw, Songezo Zibi and Monty Narsoo (Helen Suzman Foundation panel)
Richard Pithouse’s insightful analysis of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
Raymond Suttner: Government and tripartite alliance ‘no pitch’ at Marikana memorial
From the first days after the Marikana massacre Continue reading
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
Mandisi Majavu, Vavi: Discursive Tension Stifles Rape Discussion
Another take on the alleged rape or ‘consensual’ sex engaged in by Zwelinzima Vavi in COSATU HQ. While I think the writer brings some insights that have not been in the debate, the power relationship seems somehow to be lost in the various discourses that the writer examines. While ‘discursive tension’ may stifle debate, without detracting from what the contribution reveals, does it open that debate on Vavi’s actions, any further than it has been up till now?
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