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South African crisis: Addressing despair, hope and the prophetic – Part one
By: Raymond Suttner 16th October 2023 The atmosphere in South Africa in October 2023 is one of pervasive despair, a sense of depression and disillusionment, that things are bad and will... →
The continuing crisis: can we find a way forward?
9th October 2023 Very many people now have a sense of the scale of the crisis that we face in South Africa. New features seem to emerge with some regularity and... →
Stephen Marais’ memoir raises questions and choices beyond the Struggle
9th October 2023 Stephen Marais' book is very much about South Africa, the Struggle and the experience of political commitment. But it is also very much about... →
The continuing crisis: can we find a way forward?
By: Raymond Suttner 2nd October 2023 “To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them and fight at their side”- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 1996, dedication).... →
Stephen Marais’ memoir raises questions and choices beyond the Struggle
By: Raymond Suttner 27th September 2023 The true confessions of an unrehabilitated terrorist. Anecdotes and Antidotes by Stephen Johannes Marais The genre of prison literature is now... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to South African freedom – Part six
18th 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... →
The contribution of the UDF to freedom in South Africa - Part Five
18th 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of the UDF and popular power: its relevance to recovering our battered freedom “The popular struggle for democracy has been replaced by... →
The contribution of the UDF and People’s Power to our understanding of freedom – Part Four
18th September 2023 Conditions underpinning successful Popular Power activities and provoking abuses/collapse When one considers the UDF period, we obviously want to... →
