Activists forum welcome legacy foundations’ exit from National Dialogue [SOUND]

# The Activists and Citizens Forum says it is vindicated by the withdrawal of six legacy foundations from the Preparatory Task Team for the National Dialogue taking place this week. The group praises the move as putting the nation above self-interest and questions president Cyril Ramaphosa’s motives for pressing ahead. The forum’s spokesperson Dennis Bloem argues that the dialogue sidelines ordinary citizens, and risks becoming an elite political talk, wasting taxpayers’ money: