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.
We? “Non-governmental organisations, movements. Ask any organisation working in South Africa today, why is Ukraine critical for us and for everyone? Some might say, because it pushes up the price of food, and it’s important to understand supply chains and all of that, but the most important thing is missed – the possibility of our extinction.”
“The separation is no longer sustainable or tenable. We’ve already merged HIV and TB care in clinics and hospitals, yet here in South Africa we have separate conferences for each disease. It’s hubristic and a waste of money.”Perhaps anticipating the obvious follow-on question — where did South Africa’s movements lose the path? — Zackie begins paging through a thick file of TAC documents.
“It turns us activists into bureaucrats, and I use the word ‘us’ because I wasn’t excluded from that process. It pushes up salaries, creating a class of people who are different in status from their comrades and communities that they organise, leading to an inevitable conflict.” The second part of his proposed funding model envisages trade unions giving a percentage of the dividends they get from their investments to movements.
“Go anywhere in the world, and you see that working-class children don’t have the knowledge of how a computer works, or any sense of the cultural inheritance of the world. There is another problem, “quite close to home — close to the bone”, but before he gets into it, Zackie asks his colleagues for the room. They duly close their laptops, pack their things and leave. Nawal sees them out with a few proprietary barks.
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