Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
It is unclear whether the National Dialogue will be either national or a dialogue – Part 4
By: Raymond Suttner 26th August 2024 The word national must be interrogated. Will the national dialogue be truly national and what does that mean? And will it be a genuine dialogue and... →
GNU to national dialogue and beyond – Part 3
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd August 2024 If the national dialogue is happening, there is no clear process nor indication of the categories of participants I mentioned previously that the... →
From Government of National Unity to National Dialogue and beyond – Part two
By: Raymond Suttner 19th August 2024 This article represents a continuation of one published two months ago. At the time I saw the Government of National Unity (GNU) as an attempt to... →
How and why I plan to support the GNU – Part one
By: Raymond Suttner 24th June 2024 Watching developments in the Government of National Unity (GNU) over the recent period, I remain hopeful that its being set up will represent a new... →
ANC in minority: trying to understand the path(s) ahead
By: Raymond Suttner 10th June 2024 The South African public may be somewhat bewildered by the results of the general election. This despite many having wanted, and polls predicting,... →
Elections 2024 - prospects for the future
By: Raymond Suttner 4th June 2024 South Africa has just completed its general election, the first in 30 years where the ANC has failed to secure a majority of the votes. Before the... →
Israeli genocide continues - with international mainly non-governmental resistance
By: Raymond Suttner 27th May 2024 In the aftermath of Israel's latest legal defeat at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week after an application by South Africa, many... →
For democracy to be meaningful, representative government and popular power need to coexist
By: Raymond Suttner 21st May 2024 In the previous article, I argued that the ANC had transitioned from being a liberation movement to become a conventional Western political party,... →
ANC collapse relates to breaking from its liberation movement character
By: Raymond Suttner 13th May 2024 For some time, many people have been preoccupied with the fate of popular struggle, popular agency and popular activities in South African... →
Genocidal war on Gaza, its support base, impact on democracy and levels of opposition (Part 4 of series on the Israeli war on the Palestinians)
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd April 2024 The war waged in Gaza is not between Israel and Hamas (who initiated the current conflict by piercing Israeli defences and killing and taking many... →
