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In the public imagination the struggle that saw the end of apartheid and the inauguration of a democratic South Africa is seen as one waged by black people who were often imprisoned or killed for their efforts. Raymond Suttner is one of a small group of white South Africans who was imprisoned for his efforts to overthrow the apartheid regime.

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Brings together the best of Raymond Suttner's recent work to offer both an in-depth engagement with the current challenges facing South Africa and a damning account of the politics of the Zuma era. Despite his strongly argued criticism of the country's present political order, Suttner points to ways in which South Africans can recover and build on the promise of 1994.

Offers an illustrated account of the making of the historic Freedom Charter in South Africa in 1955. This book includes a section on the contemporary relevance of the Freedom Charter.

It is widely assumed that the African National Congress essentially disappeared from South Africa after its banning in 1960 and the imprisonment of its leaders, until public support for it revived in the wake of the 1976 Soweto uprising. Raymond Suttner takes issue with that view. Drawing on extensive oral testimony, Suttner reveals how internally based activists, often working independently of the ANC in exile, were able to reconstitute and m...

In Recovering democracy in South Africa, which brings together the best of his recent writings and essays, he offers a fresh look at a wide range of contentious issues that currently preoccupy South Africans, from the threat to constitutionalism to problems with leadership and questions of ethics.

Alan Paton Award runner-up for non-fiction, 2002. "Raymond Suttner is one of a small number of white comrades who played a substantial role in bringing apartheid to an end. His book should be read by all who are interested in South Africa."--Walter Sisulu