Category Archives: UDF

Raymond Suttner video interview with Polity on NUMSA project

Raymond Suttner, Loss of trust and legitimacy result in ungovernability

http://www.polity.org.za/article/loss-of-trust-and-legitimacy-result-in-ungovernability-2014-02-11

Verashni Pillay, Full Marx at the NUMSA school

Full Marx at Numsa’s political school

Raymond Suttner, Are developments in NUMSA moving towards an emancipatory project?

http://www.polity.org.za/article/are-developments-in-numsa-moving-towards-an-emancipatory-project-2014-02-05

Raymond Suttner, Interview with Polity, addressing political expression additional to voting

Nomboniso Gasa profile interview on PowerFM with Azania Mosaka

https://soundcloud.com/powerfm987/profile-interview-with-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fpowerfm987%2Fprofile-interview-with-1

NUMSA- a sign of things to come (Business Day editorial)

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/editorials/2013/12/20/editorial-numsa-a-sign-of-things-to-come

Matuma Letsoalo, Mmanaledi Mataboge, Gatvol Numsa turns off ANC tap

Gatvol Numsa cuts ties with ANC

Raymond Suttner interview on Mandela on SABC3 (starts 12-13th minute of video)

Podcast of PowerFM radio interview with Raymond Suttner, Kay Sexwale and host Chris Vick, on disagreement with current leadership directions of the ANC

http://www.powerfm.co.za/category/general-podcasts/

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 →

Raymond Suttner, The campaign against apartheid Israel and the slogan ‘kill the Jew’

Amongst the components of any serious campaign is the use of slogans.  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 →

Nomboniso Gasa on patriarchy in history and SA today

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 →

Creating a culture of democracy and debate: response to Ndinda and Neocosmos

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Michael Neocosmos, The heritage of struggle: a dialogue with Raymond Suttner’s ancestral fidelity

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Culture(s) of the African National Congress:imprint of exile experience

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