Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
Crisis, despair and harnessing hope – Part One 
By: Raymond Suttner 30th October 2023 We are living in a time when every second analyst or academic or forecaster advances a plan as to how we can extricate ourselves from the present... →
South African crisis: despair, hope and the prophetic – Part Two
By: Raymond Suttner 17th October 2023 What does one do to improve our conditions? When one reads about the notion of hope, some of it is in dense theoretical books (as in Ernst Bloch’s... →
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of the UDF and popular power: its relevance to recovering our battered freedom “The popular struggle for democracy has been replaced by...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... →
