Zackie Achmat’s voice was one of the loudest when it came to protesting against former president Thabo Mbeki’s Aids denialism in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He now lives in downtown Cape Town and fights State Capture and broken trains.
NKENKE KEKANA: A response to distortions of ANC policy by so-called RET forces
OPINION
It is not a new phenomenon in the ANC for individuals to work within the structures while seeking to undermine policies of the organisation for narrow political interests. Like the Marxist Workers Tendency (MWT) before, the radical economic transformation (RET) is an opportunist tendency that seeks to detract from and distort ANC economic policy. While MWT were Trotskyists, it is not clear what RET stands for apart from their preaching and using revolutionary sounding words that often lack ideological clarity.
It is not just semantics - there is a difference between radical socioeconomic transformation and radical economic transformation.