Evidence suggests that the publication was held hostage by its main donor, Roy Singham; that its failure to diversify its funding was a feature, not a bug; and that when it came to be regarded as less useful politically, it was deliberately abandoned, ...
’s management and funder are the victims of conspiracies and political point scoring from the “sectarian left, a space well-known for being riven with paranoia and bitter enmity”.
Thoughtworks in South Africa provided Singham with his entry point into Numsa. The union, and later its political party offshoot, the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party , became central nodes in Singham’s network of moneyed influence, around which a number of Singham-linked entities began to orbit.
According to US tax filings, PSF’s president is Singham’s partner, Jodie Evans, who, according to thearticle, established the entity “with the help of Chad Wathington, Thoughtworks’ chief strategy officer”. Thoughtworks’ former general counsel, Jason Pfetcher, is listed as a director and treasurer of the organisation, and its secretary is Jo Anderson-Figueroa.
Over 2018 and 2019 it channelled $1.87-million to the Centre for Pan-African Media , the non-profit that housesA letter from CPAM announcing the retrenchments of staff shows how reliant the organisation was on a single source of funds. It stated that over the last six months it had “received 99.9 percent of its funding requirements from one foundation”, and that it could not secure funding beyond the end of September.
Another major recipient of Singham’s largesse in South Africa is Pan Africa Today , which received more than $2.5-million from the PSF. A 2021 SRWP report by Jagarnath, who serves as the deputy general secretary of the party, notes that PAT “works with various organisations across the continent but its fundamental relationship is with the Numsa, Socialist Party of Zambia and SRWP”.
Kleiner is a former lead for social and economic justice at Thoughtworks in Germany and is listed as the president of the UCF — the Singham-linked New York entity that made large donations to sub-Saharan Africa. Jagarnath participated in the meeting as the strategy adviser for the SRWP and coordinator for the Tricontinental Institute — of which more later.
Further evidence of this is seen in a South African non-profit called Common Ground, another cog in the Singham machine, which aCommon Ground counts Takuva as a director, alongside two others. From the outside, the boundaries between these organisations appear rather permeable, with the same group of people linked to Singham circulating between them, seemingly as a conduit for Singham’s activism.was insulated from the whims of its funder, whom he says has never made a direct donation to“I have never reported to Singham or any other individual. I report, as is standard in donor-funded organisations, to a board that in turn sends proposals and reports to foundation boards.
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