In 2006 the two largest social movements in South Africa rejected the appalling Trotskyist authoritarianism of the Centre for Civil Society and Khanya College. For this they were wildly slandered as criminal by the Trots and some people were even sold out to their bosses and threatened with violence.
Later that year the authoritarianism of the AIDC was exposed and then, pehaps most shockingly, Lynn Moonsamy, the elected leader of the Crossmoor informal settlement in Durban, issued a statement alleging that she had ben forced out of her home by threats of violence and slander from the Centre for Civil Society. Numerous people in Durban have confirmed the validity of her statement and that people speaking up for her have been threatened in all kinds of ways.
Now the ZACF has taken on, directly, Trevor Ngwane's authoritarianism.
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