Pithouse

Indeed Pithouse had left the CCS under a cloud at around about that time.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

Indeed Pithouse had left the CCS under a cloud at around about that time.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

Pithouse has written to others in these terms, in crowded email lists to those viewed as sympathetic.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

I requested Pithouse to place his statements on record that we could challenge these issues in a public forum.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

The above mentioned reveals a strategy similar to that of Pithouse: claiming and gaming to justify certain stances.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

This point is crucial when taking into account the fact that Pithouse has criticized others for engaging in precisely the same behavior: championing or using the poor to develop their own academic ambitions, activist personae etc.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

This was particularly evident when ABM's official spokesman informed me he had never head of Alain Badiou, the professor and philosopher whose work is central to Pithouse's narrative, same philosopher described by Pithouse as having significantly influenced ABM's leaders.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

ABM's head of communications informed me that he could not comment on whether he understood the reasons why Pithouse did in fact resign.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

But what Pithouse does not seem to have communicated to those protesting on his behalf why they were protesting against fellow activists in a similarly distressing situation is a mystery was that he was facing looming grievance and possible disciplinary action against him flowing from an investigation into serious complaints by several colleagues of harassing and undermining behavior related to strikingly similar issues.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010

Pithouse and Abm go back a long way -- he was the first academic to write articles about them including 13 of 40 articles published by ABM -- five more than ABM's head S'bu Zikode and is described as a member of the shackdwellers movement despite being a white, middle class academic who does not live in shacks himself.

Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics? Khadija Sharife 2010