SIPHILE Buthelezi is secretary-general of the Progressive Professionals Forum.BUSINESS DAY TV: The newly launched Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF) is widely seen as a desperate attempt by the ANC (African National Congress) to attract black professionals back to the party. That’s despite an assertion by its president, Jimmy Manyi, that the body is nonracial, nonsexist, non-xenophobic and non Afrophobic. To set the record straight, PPF secretary-general Siphile Buthelezi is our guest this evening.Let’s get straight into what exactly we’re looking at when it comes to the Progressive Professionals Forum.SIPHILE BUTHELEZI: The Progressive Professional Forum comprises professionals, entrepreneurs, intelligentsia and academia who are aligned to the progressive movement, and who aspire to progressive ideals such as those in the Freedom Charter, in the preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.BDTV: Is there a concern that the ANC may have lost some of the support of...
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