Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
ANC at 107: history, values and strategies
By: Raymond Suttner 14th January 2019 The ANC is very preoccupied with its history and it has been drawn on for different reasons at different times. During the freedom struggle that... →
May elections: what is the price of an ANC electoral victory?
By: Raymond Suttner 7th January 2019 In four months, there will be general elections for national and provincial legislatures. While the other main parties are in disarray, the ANC... →
Has Cyril Ramaphosa’s position weakened and, if so, what are the consequences?
By: Raymond Suttner 10th December 2018 Until now many observers, including myself, have been at pains to credit President Cyril Ramaphosa and his allies with addressing the need to clean... →
What is at stake in demanding formal educational qualifications in democratic politics?
By: Raymond Suttner 3rd December 2018 Factional battles as well as tensions over white control in the DA appear to have led to a focus on the DA Chief Whip in the National Assembly,... →
The popular, populism and the crisis of representation
By: Raymond Suttner 28th November 2018 Democracy is often discussed in a way that seriously limits our understanding of its theory and practice. This was very evident in the Cold War... →
Securing Ramaphosa’s presidency – at what cost? 
By: Raymond Suttner 26th November 2018 There is no need to recapitulate in detail the expectations that many people cherished for the Cyril Ramaphosa presidency. Many of these were not... →
Xenophobic discourse and disease
By: Raymond Suttner 21st November 2018 Recently, Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi expressed his concern about the influx of illegal immigrants because of the strain this was placing... →
Ethics and scholarship: revisiting why I withdrew a thesis 49 years ago
By: Raymond Suttner 6th November 2018 On 14 December I will be awarded a Master of Laws (LLM) degree by UCT. This, as many media reports have noted, is 49 years after I first submitted... →
Constitutionalism and the quality of democracy: are we immune to fascism?
By: Raymond Suttner 30th October 2018 In contemporary South Africa much attention is rightly devoted to restoring legality, constitutionalism and practices that conform to what is... →
The place of the popular and the populist
By: Raymond Suttner 24th October 2018 It is common in political commentary -locally and internationally- to treat the popular and populist as one. It is important that they be... →
