The Anti-Privatisation Forum expresses its full and sincere solidarity with you and your family during these difficult times. As the APF, we have resolved to contribute whatever we are able to assist you, and we will encourage further individual contributions as well as letters of support. You are known and respected by many on the left in South Africa. You have served the working class and poor in Southern Africa with principled commitment for many years. Indeed, you are one of the few who has dedicated your life to work with, and for, the oppressed and marginalized. You have resisted self-enrichment and personal gain. Your stellar work at Khanya College and at the International Labour Research and Information Group helped produce many leading activists and progressive left-leaning professionals in South Africa and facilitated important debates and discussions towards finding a working class way forward following the disorganisation and disorientation of left forces in South Africa due to the ANC ‘s betrayal of the liberation movement and its capitulation to neo-liberalism. We do not feel betrayed, tricked or taken for a ride with the revelation of your earlier activities. Rather, it is your life’s work here in South Africa that serves as the basis for our solidarity and support.
ANTI-PRIVATISATION FORUM
PUBLIC LETTER TO COMRADE JAMES KILGORE (JOHN PAPE)
(Thursday 14th November)
Comrade,
The Anti-Privatisation Forum expresses its full and sincere solidarity with you and your family during these difficult times. As the APF, we have resolved to contribute whatever we are able to assist you, and we will encourage further individual contributions as well as letters of support.
You are known and respected by many on the left in South Africa. You have served the working class and poor in Southern Africa with principled commitment for many years. Indeed, you are one of the few who has dedicated your life to work with, and for, the oppressed and marginalized. You have resisted self-enrichment and personal gain. Your stellar work at Khanya College and at the International Labour Research and Information Group helped produce many leading activists and progressive left-leaning professionals in South Africa and facilitated important debates and discussions towards finding a working class way forward following the disorganisation and disorientation of left forces in South Africa due to the ANC ‘s betrayal of the liberation movement and its capitulation to neo-liberalism. We do not feel betrayed, tricked or taken for a ride with the revelation of your earlier activities. Rather, it is your life’s work here in South Africa that serves as the basis for our solidarity and support.
We know that what stands before you and your family now will not be easy. There will be pain and hardship. We also know however, that you will face the future in the knowledge that your selfless dedication to the struggles of the working class has helped in the building of a new movement that respects and does not trample on the rank and file and their needs. Stand proud and resolute as one who contributed immensely to this growing movement and its counter-parts in the global struggle for socio-economic justice and revolutionary political change.
In solidarity and struggle,
The Anti-Privatisation Forum
For further information contact:
Dale McKinley on 072 429-4086 or Trevor Ngwane on 083 293 7691
Visit the APF website at http://www.apf.org.za
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