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Raymond Suttner

Raymond Sorrel Suttner

Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa


Born 29-08-1945 in Durban

Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was a political prisoner sentenced for ANC underground activities between 1975 and 1983. He was detained without trial under state of emergency between 1986 to 1988. He was restricted in 1988 but defied these and travelled to the Organisation of African Unity meeting in 1989 and returned in 1990. Suttner has written articles for South Africa and overseas journals on: jurisprudence, African Customary Law, sociology, gender studies, history, International Law and Politics. He has written extensively in ANC, UDF publications, commercial and 'alternative' press.

Contact details

rsuttner@worldonline.co.za

O: (011) 487 3182

M: 083 973 9824


Raymond Suttner's Professional details

Current Position(s)

Emeritus Professor | University of South Africa
South Africa | 2011 - present

Previous Position(s)

Visiting Research Fellow | Centre for Policy Studies | University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg | 2001 - 2005
South African Ambassador | South African Embassy
Sweden | 1997 - 2001

South African Ambassador to Sweden

Member | Central Committee | South African Communist Party
1991 - 1998
Member of Parliament | National Assembly | African National Congress
1994 - 1997
Member | National Assembly | African National Congress
1994 - 1997
Member | NEC | African National Congress
1991 - 1997
National Head | Department of Political Education | African National Congress
1990 - 1994
Senior Lecturer | Faculty of Law | University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg | 1984 - 1990
Education Officer | Transvaal Executive | United Democratic Front
1985 - 1988
Research Officer | African Studies Institute | University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg | 1983 - 1983
Senior Lecturer | Law |
Durban | 1972 - 1975
Junior Lecturer | Comparative African Government & Law | University of Cape Town
Cape Town | 1968 - 1969
Member | Nusas NEC
1964 - 1965

Educational history

Tertiary

University of the Witwatersrand

Completed 2006

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Law

Advocate of Supreme Court

Achievements

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Author | The ANC-led underground up to 1976. A social and historical study | 2008


Author | 50 Years of the Freedom Charter | 2006


Author | Hidden Histories | 2008

Series Editor

Editor | All My Life and All My strength | 2004


Co-Author | 30 Years of the Freedom Charter | 1986

Co-Author with J Cronin

Author | The Freedom Charter-The People’s Charter in the Nineteen-Eighties | 1984


Activities

Memberships

University of Cape Town Law Students Council 1967

President

University of Cape Town Students Representative Council 1965-67

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