Raymond Suttner - Suttner's View
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... →
Breaking with Zumaism
By: Raymond Suttner 8th October 2018 The hope has been repeatedly expressed that the onset of Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency of the ANC and the country would represent a break with the... →
Gandhi and Mandela: a tentative interpretation
By: Raymond Suttner 2nd October 2018 Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi and Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela were very different types of persons in most respects. But it is too easy to... →
Freedom and ethics – then and now
By: Raymond Suttner 26th September 2018 What did it mean to join the liberation struggle against apartheid, in the difficult times and what does it mean now? Joining the liberation... →
