#MTBPS 2018: 7 things you need to know Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | 24 October 2018 No major surprises, in business as usual medium term budget policy statement. No aggressive austerity measures, but this doesn’t…
#MTBPS 2018: 7 things you need to know Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | 24 October 2018 No major surprises, in business as usual medium term budget policy statement. No aggressive austerity measures, but this doesn’t…
What will Mboweni do? Ahead of the MTBPS we call on the finance minister to radically break from neoliberalism – alternatives exist Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) Economic Justice Team | 22 October 2018 In post-Apartheid South Africa, the…
Role of Public Utilities in Transforming the Energy Sector From Neoliberalism to a Just Transition for Energy Democracy Eskom (South Africa’s) is in deep crisis, the state of South Africa’s public utility is not unique to South Africa indicative in…
Intersectionality: Materialism or culturalism? Michael Nassen Smith | Amandla | 23 August 2018 Intersectionality has become a “master” concept in progressive circles today. With origins in critical legal studies in the USA, it has quickly spread across the globe…
Review: Learning for Living’: A much needed publication Siyabulele Mama | Amandla | 24 August 2018 ‘Learning for Living’ is a book that argues for an emancipatory and humanist pedagogy. 2018 marks 21 years since the death of Paulo…
End Illicit Financial Flows and Wage Evasion Transnational Corporations (TNC) wield a massive amount of power in the global economy. They use that power to undermine the sovereignty of nation states and consolidate themselves as the real rulers of the…
Geopolitics and the Role of BRICS Dominic Brown | Amandlla | 28 July 2018 Ten years after the 2008 global financial crisis, the global economy is still stagnant and there are few prospects for a recovery. As a result,…
Join us on 24 July 2018 at AIDC (129 Rochester Road, Observatory) for a screening of Freedom Isn’t Free, the Freedom Charter Today and a discussion with Martin Jansen, the producer writer and director of the film. Synopsis: Freedom Isn’t…
Land Reform – A critique of Traditional Leadership by Lwazi Ncapayi and Solomzi Ntungwa | 14 July 2018 | Amandla! Magazine The South African constitution recognises customary law as a source of law, and may be used in courts of…
BRICS in Africa: “You are either at the table or on the menu” At a Johannesburg BRICS think tank, scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric By Patrick Bond South African academics and think tanks met on 28-31 May 2018…
