Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
Imagery and identities in Mandela’s leadership – Part 3
By: Raymond Suttner 18th August 2025 Imagery has always been important in liberation movement politics and history. In the case of the South African Native National Congress, (the name... →
Nelson Mandela’s leadership and “obstinacy” – Part 2
By: Raymond Suttner 13th August 2025 Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom Nelson Mandela was notoriously stubborn or obstinate, both... →
Revisiting Nelson Mandela’s journeys in leadership – Part 1
By: Raymond Suttner 28th July 2025 Celebrated as Nelson Mandela is, his life and its interpretation have evoked much controversy. It is a good antidote to confront and engage with... →
Understanding the Freedom Charter in changing times
By: Raymond Suttner 1st July 2025 The Freedom Charter does not have an obvious interpretation which stands in place from generation to generation. How we interpret the document is... →
Xenophobia is an attack on democratic life and must be stopped – Part Two
By: Raymond Suttner 13th June 2025 To voice xenophobic statements and behaviour, as Gayton McKenzie has done, is to spit on the freedom of all South Africans because freedom is... →
Xenophobic actions are antagonistic to democratic life and must be stopped – Part One
By: Raymond Suttner 12th June 2025 Community involvement in xenophobic attacks Most xenophobic conflicts portray sections of the community as being extremely hostile towards foreign... →
Donald Trump, “the Day Before” and “the Morning After” – Part One
By: Raymond Suttner 25th March 2025 There tends to be an assumption when any form of tyranny reigns, that all will return to normal, should the dictator be removed. It ought to be... →
The national dialogue is neither national nor a dialogue - but it can become that - Part Three
By: Raymond Suttner 16th January 2025 I have written an article which was titled “The national dialogue is neither national nor a dialogue.” Now that may be the case for a particular... →
The national dialogue is neither national nor a dialogue - but it can become that – Part Two
By: Raymond Suttner 15th January 2025 In building a common vision (if that becomes part of the goals of the national dialogue), we will not just have a set of ideas on which we agree,... →
The national dialogue is neither national nor a dialogue - but it can become that – Part One
By: Raymond Suttner 14th January 2025 Why a national dialogue and what does it mean? From the first time the idea of a “national dialogue” was mentioned during President Cyril... →
