Progressive ANC Voters Network

The Progressive ANC Voters Network (PAVN) is a sub-party voting bloc organization that was formed by AIDS activist Zackie Achmat and other card-carrying members of the African National Congress on March 28, 2007. It is meant to push for greater representation and furtherance of progressivist ideals within the party.
==Criticism==
The creation of the network was initially criticized by leaders of the ANC 'Progressive thinkers' to get public talking, by Linda Daniels, IOL and the South African Communist Party Political turf war erupts within the ANC, by Linda Daniels, IOLWill the real ANC please stand up?, by insidepolitics.co.za. However, the network's invitation to the President and NEC of the ANCletter to Mbeki and NEC received a reply from the office of then-Secretary-General Kgalema Motlanthe (now Deputy-President) which indicated his support for the organizationletter from the Office of the Secretary General.
==References==
==External Links==
* PAVN
* YouTube channel