Prof Raymond Suttner |
The ANC underground in South Africa by Prof Raymond Suttner, Head of the Walter and Albertina Sisulu Knowledge and Heritage Unit at the School for Graduate Studies at Unisa, was launched at Unisa last week.
According to Prof Suttner, "this book covers a wide area, not only secrecy and various other characteristics or aspects of the history of underground. I am particularly concerned with a legacy that is represented partially by what I capture in this book, a legacy that has been ruptured. I hope that by making this work available I will restore to public memory some of the proud legacy, the humility and bravery, the selflessness that led many of us to join the liberation struggle. I say that because I wrote this book as a scholar but also a freedom fighter, a combination which I believe strengthened whatever qualities it has."
Prof Suttner was a political prisoner sentenced from 1975 to 1983 for ANC underground activities, and detained without trial under the state of emergency from 1986 to 1988.
The launch was co-hosted by the Research Directorate and the School for Graduate Studies.
Prof Barney Pityana (Principal and Vice-Chancellor), Prof Tinyiko Maluleke (Executive Director: Research) and Prof Raymond Suttner | |
Ms Moetsie du Plessis of the School for Graduate Studies and Prof Raymond Suttner |
