Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18.
28th September 2021 Professor Raymond Suttner unpacks his column "Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18. Click here to read the column. →
Revitalising democratic life
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd September 2021 On various campaign visits to communities in recent days, the ANC and Cyril Ramaphosa himself continue to provide evidence to many who were likely... →
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18. 
By: Raymond Suttner 13th September 2021 In my recent article on “deZumafication”, I referred to the absence of vision in the post-Zuma era. (See “’De-Zumafication’” and the possibly... →
What is political analysis?
10th September 2021 Professor Raymond Suttner unpacks his column 'What is political analysis?'. Click here to read the column. →
“De-Zumafication” and the possibly terminal crisis of the ANC
10th September 2021 Professor Raymond Suttner unpacks his column “De-Zumafication” and the possibly terminal crisis of the ANC. Click here to read the column. →
“De-Zumafication” and the possibly terminal crisis of the ANC 
By: Raymond Suttner 7th September 2021 The current crisis of the ANC has taken a range of permutations. I have not wanted to write a series of narratives - of which we have plenty - on... →
Mandela in Cuba
28th April 2021 When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he asked me to write his speeches. At one point, Thabo Mbeki and myself were both designated... →
What is political analysis?
By: Raymond Suttner 23rd March 2021 The modern nation state is strongly associated with the rise of the print media, and modern democracy with the public sphere enabled by the print... →
Leadership in Question part 11: The personal and the political in Chris Hani’s leadership
By: Raymond Suttner 8th February 2021 We live in a time when a movement once devoted to the wellbeing of all, has become callous. That contempt for the welfare of others is diffused... →
Leadership in Question Part 10: What can we learn from Chris Hani’s leadership qualities?
By: Raymond Suttner 1st February 2021 Previous articles in this series are to be found here. “We have always lived the ANC in our camps. We have dreamt about the ANC. There was no other... →
