Zackie Achmat was one of the most vociferous voices against Mbeki’s HIV denialism in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He now fights state capture — and broken trains. | via Bhekisisa_MG
“Nongovernmental organisations, movements. Ask any organisation working in South Africa today:because it pushes the prices of food up
“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? — Achmat begins paging through a thick file of TAC documents.
“Funding undermines organisations,” he argues, and his colleagues smile knowingly — a familiar hobby horse is being mounted. “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.” Picture: Jay Caboz
“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.
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