The recent Congress of South African Trade Unions discussion document argues that critics of the government’s macroeconomic strategy tend to be labelled populist, counter-revolutionary or neo-conservative. A recent article by Ronald Suresh Roberts falls neatly into this pattern and attempts to delegitimise criticism based on faulty reasoning, writes Oupa Bodibe.

Two prominent African National Congress leaders have entered the debate around the alleged danger of an ”ultra-left sectarian faction” inside and outside the ranks of the South African national liberation movement.