With Friends like Tito Mboweni, Who Needs the IMF? Resist SA’s new structural adjustment programme 25 June 2020 Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget has proved that he is not fit to manage this crisis. The minister has completely ignored the immense…
With Friends like Tito Mboweni, Who Needs the IMF? Resist SA’s new structural adjustment programme 25 June 2020 Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget has proved that he is not fit to manage this crisis. The minister has completely ignored the immense…
Borrowing from the IMF will only deepen South Africa’s crisis Dick Forslund | DailyMaverick | 24 June, 2020 Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is creating panic before his tabling of the Supplementary Budget. He is speaking of an imminent “sovereign debt crisis”. …
The Responsibility of the SA Reserve Bank Open Letter | 09 June, 2020 We welcome, finally, a written response to critiques of SA Reserve Bank (SARB) monetary policy, specifically, SARB research head Chris Loewald’s “Depression risk a bad reason to…
South Africa’s Response to COVID-19 Compared Jaco Oelofsen | AIDC Economic Justice Programme | 21 May 2020 This is a short excerpt from a brief study conducted by the AIDC, to read the report in full click here South Africa’s…
Department of Trade and Industry must call for the WTO’s suspension of trade talks Public Services International | Letter to the Minister of Trade and Industry | 4 May 2020 As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, all governments…
As Southern Africa faces a socioeconomic catastrophe: We must break with capitalist globalisation and neoliberalism Statement by the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) |5 April, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great danger to the SADC region. If the…
A Programme of Action in the time of Covid-19 – a call for social solidarity Mazibuko Jara | DailyMaverick | 24 March 2020 We, as civic organisations, trade unions, organisations of informal workers, faith-based organisations and community structures in South Africa,…
The 2020/01 Budget relief for the investors exclusion for the majority Alternative Information and Development Centre | #Budget2020 Statement | 27 February 2020 Social and labour movements, under the banner of the Cry of the Xcluded, mobilised ahead of the…
Use PIC to Stabilise Eskom and other key SOE’s – AIDC AIDC Economic Justice Programme Manager Dominic Brown appeared on E.tv’s Morning Show to discuss the use of the Government Employees Pension Fund and The Public Investment Corporation to save…
Cry of the Xcluded launch statement: Let South Africa Work! Jobs, Dignity and Services!!!! The unemployment crisis South Africa finds itself at a precipice. The economic malaise currently being experienced places the nation at a point of no return. The…
