By Akani Nkuna
Three key Afrikaner organisations – AfriForum, Solidarity, and the Solidarity Movement – have withdrawn from the National Dialogue, following the mass exit of other groups, including the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, which had strongly backed the initiative from the start.
Solidarity Movement chairperson Flip Buys accused the ANC of hijacking the initiative to score political points, rather than addressing the issues affecting ordinary citizens — the very purpose for which the dialogue was originally proposed.
“The reason is that it appears that the ANC wants to hijack the intended National Dialogue to try to win back lost support, rather than to find answers to the crises,” Buys said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
“That is why the Solidarity Movement supports the various foundations that have decided not to attend the dialogue on Friday, and we will also not be there. There is no sense in placing the
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