Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
South African crisis: Addressing despair, hope and the prophetic – Part one 
By: Raymond Suttner 16th October 2023 The atmosphere in South Africa in October 2023 is one of pervasive despair, a sense of depression and disillusionment, that things are bad and will... →
The continuing crisis: can we find a way forward? 
By: Raymond Suttner 2nd October 2023 “To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them and fight at their side”- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 1996, dedication).... →
Stephen Marais’ memoir raises questions and choices beyond the Struggle
By: Raymond Suttner 27th September 2023 The true confessions of an unrehabilitated terrorist. Anecdotes and Antidotes by Stephen Johannes Marais The genre of prison literature is now... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to South African freedom – Part six
12th September 2023 Uneven non-sectarianism The success of attempts to establish People’s Power, it has been suggested earlier, depended on being non-sectarian, in... →
The contribution of the UDF to freedom in South Africa - Part Five
11th September 2023 The demise of the UDF and popular power: its relevance to recovering our battered freedom “The popular struggle for democracy has been replaced by... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part Four
By: Raymond Suttner 4th September 2023 Conditions underpinning successful Popular Power activities and provoking abuses/collapse When one considers the UDF period, we obviously want to... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part three
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd August 2023 The UDF as both an agent of the ANC as well as autonomous actor This is Part three in a series. Read Part one and two. →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part two
By: Raymond Suttner 21st August 2023 The current commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the UDF is foregrounding certain elements of the experience of the UDF and underplaying or... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understandings of freedom – Part one
By: Raymond Suttner 7th August 2023 When one looks at the statements made in commemorating 40 years since the formation of the United Democratic Front (UDF) one does not generally get... →
Being a revolutionary or pursuing an emancipatory path in the “15 wasted years” – Series final part 7
By: Raymond Suttner 3rd July 2023 This series was conceived as an attempt to ask what it means to be a revolutionary in South Africa, starting around 1960 with the banning of the... →
