Just weeks after his expulsion, former senior member of the African National Congress (ANC) Carl Niehaus has launched the Radical Economic Transformation Movement (RETMO).
The motion hopes to champion the beliefs misplaced by the ANC, however it’s anticipated to contest the 2024 elections.
The veteran chief accuses the ANC of getting betrayed its unique mission.
“I think it is important to understand that the Radical Economic Transformation Movement is about the fundamental economic rights of the majority of South Africans specifically black and Africa,” he says.
According to Niehaus, the motion emerges towards the backdrop of what he says is the ANC’s lack of the beliefs that advance radical financial transformation, such because the empowerment of the vast majority of black folks , the return of the land to the folks with out compensation, the nationalisation of the South African Reserve Bank, and likewise the transformation of the nation’s financial establishments.
“But sadly the ANC changed, the ANC is no longer standing for those ideals: for radical economic transformation, it has now become a neo-liberal political party. It is a reformist party, it is not challenging the fundamental tenets and foundation of our economy.”
But don’t rely on the motion turning right into a political celebration that may contest elections simply but.
”At the second, it’s a motion; it isn’t a political celebration. We are registering as a non-revenue organisation with the Department of Social Development. What the longer term holds, I can’t inform you; I can’t say to you whether or not, by way of how the dynamics develop, this motion might at some stage turn out to be a political celebration; I don’t know; that’s sooner or later.”
It is unclear who will type a part of the motion at this stage, however many people who find themselves senior within the ANC have been supporting Niehaus.
