Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
Unresolved intimate partner assault: Josina Machel loses an eye
By: Raymond Suttner 16th July 2020 Josina Machel may seem by virtue of her family associations, to have enjoyed some immunity from abuse. But she, too, has experienced vicious... →
Our various ways of relating to lockdown
By: Raymond Suttner 29th June 2020 We are at a phase of the development of Covid-19 where we need to cultivate even greater civic and social responsibility, than has been evident... →
How do we mark the 65th anniversary of the Freedom Charter?
By: Raymond Suttner 22nd June 2020 This Friday 26 June marks the 65th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People, the culminating moment of a... →
Lockdown: Violence, hunger and indifference
By: Raymond Suttner 15th June 2020 As we mark the anniversary of the June 16 1976 uprising, many young people are experiencing hunger and there is widespread violence emanating from... →
Lockdown messaging must be sensitive to the plight of the poor and vulnerable
By: Raymond Suttner 20th April 2020 The state of disaster and the lockdown has led to the curtailment of fundamental rights of people in South Africa. It imposes a duty on government... →
For lockdown to succeed security forces need to be reined in
By: Raymond Suttner 14th April 2020 The lockdown is a unique experience, in that the people of South Africa consented to the limiting of their freedom in order to combat the spread of... →
Covid-19: inequality and violence
8th April 2020 The imposition of a lockdown or any other restrictions relating to Covid-19, are always implemented in societies with pre-existing conditions that... →
Coronavirus, multiple crises and the need for human solidarity
By: Raymond Suttner 10th March 2020 It is well known that South Africa is experiencing a range of crises and in many cases, it seems hard for these to be surmounted. There is a heavy... →
EFF: contributing towards or undermining democratic life?
By: Raymond Suttner 17th February 2020 The EFF disruption of the SONA last week happened at a time when the ANC is having difficulty holding together and has not itself contributed... →
Making the DA white again?
By: Raymond Suttner 13th February 2020 Many have remarked on the ANC being in deep crisis but the DA, after substantial gains in municipal elections in 2016 not being in a position to... →
