Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
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... →
Being a revolutionary or believer in emancipatory transformation in post-apartheid South Africa: Part six
By: Raymond Suttner 28th June 2023 The onset of democratic rule set in motion a completely different framework for politics from that previously practised in the ANC and its allies.... →
Being a revolutionary/pursuing an emancipatory path in period of negotiations: Part five
By: Raymond Suttner 19th June 2023 The period of negotiations was one way - one cannot say that there was any single way - of playing out a revolutionary role. Some would see it as... →
Revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and action after 1976: Part four
By: Raymond Suttner 13th June 2023 As indicated, the decade after the Rivonia Trial was not one of the absence of resistance, although in the case of the ANC and SACP cadres, they... →
Revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and activity from the Rivonia trial to the 1976 uprising: Part three
By: Raymond Suttner 5th June 2023 This article and those that precede and follow it concern revolutionary (or emancipatory) consciousness and revolutionary activity in the context... →
How meanings of revolutionary/emancipatory consciousness and actions need to change over time: Part two
By: Raymond Suttner 29th May 2023 As indicated in the first part of this series, the content of the notions revolutionary consciousness and activity are not static... →
Revolutionary or emancipatory consciousness and action before and after 1990/94: Part one
By: Raymond Suttner 24th May 2023 There was a time when the word “revolution” was frequently used by cadres and activists in the Struggle against apartheid. It was nevertheless... →
What do we do when erstwhile liberators become ‘counter-revolutionaries’?
By: Raymond Suttner 24th April 2023 In former President Thabo Mbeki's, recent letter to ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile there were copious references to “counter-revolution” and... →
Scandals surrounding Bester/Magudumana saga illustrate state disintegration as public is left vulnerable
By: Raymond Suttner 11th April 2023 Much of the media has been dominated by events surrounding the escape of convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester from Mangaung Maximum Security... →
