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Stephen Marais

Stephen Marais’ memoir raises questions and choices beyond the Struggle

By: Raymond Suttner     Updated 1 hour 16 minutes ago The true confessions of an unrehabilitated terrorist.  Anecdotes and Antidotes by Stephen Johannes Marais The genre of prison literature is now... 

Raymond Suttner

The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to South African freedom – Part six

12th September 2023 Uneven non-sectarianism The success of attempts to establish People’s Power, it has been suggested earlier, depended on being non-sectarian, in... 

Raymond Suttner

The contribution of the UDF to freedom in South Africa - Part Five

11th September 2023 The demise of the UDF and popular power: its relevance to recovering our battered freedom “The popular struggle for democracy has been replaced by... 

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The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part Four

By: Raymond Suttner     4th September 2023 Conditions underpinning successful Popular Power activities and provoking abuses/collapse When one considers the UDF period, we obviously want to... 

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The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part three 

By: Raymond Suttner     22nd August 2023 The UDF as both an agent of the ANC as well as autonomous actor This is Part three in a series. Read Part one and two. 

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The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part two 

By: Raymond Suttner     21st August 2023 The current commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the UDF is foregrounding certain elements of the experience of the UDF and underplaying or... 

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The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understandings of freedom – Part one 

By: Raymond Suttner     7th August 2023 When one looks at the statements made in commemorating 40 years since the formation of the United Democratic Front (UDF) one does not generally get... 

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Being a revolutionary or pursuing an emancipatory path in the “15 wasted years” – Series final part 7

By: Raymond Suttner     3rd July 2023 This series was conceived as an attempt to ask what it means to be a revolutionary in South Africa, starting around 1960 with the banning of the... 

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Being a revolutionary or believer in emancipatory transformation in post-apartheid South Africa: Part six

By: Raymond Suttner     28th June 2023 The onset of democratic rule set in motion a completely different framework for politics from that previously practised in the ANC and its allies.... 

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Being a revolutionary/pursuing an emancipatory path in period of negotiations: Part five

By: Raymond Suttner     19th June 2023 The period of negotiations was one way - one cannot say that there was any single way - of playing out a revolutionary role. Some would see it as... 

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