Solutions to load shedding and a public pathway to a just transition:
Alternative Information and Development Centre has put together a brief resource pack of some of our contributions on why Eskom is in a mess, and what do to about it Read More
Electric cars — a major problem for all and a solution for only a few!
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 07 Mar 2023 One has indeed to be rich to afford the comfort of doing one’s bit for slowing down climate change. Were it not for neglected railway and underground systems, along with the…
These are dark days for South Africa: The power crisis is worsening, but its effects are not equally felt
By Andile Zulu | The Continent | 21 Jan 2023 It is just three weeks into the new year, and South Africans have spent most of it without consistent power, with little sign of improvement on the horizon. Rolling blackouts of up to 10 hours…
Right to Say No Counter Mining Indaba Report: A Just Transition Away From Minerals Energy Complex
On the 6th and 7th of February community activists from South Africa and Swaziland gathered in Cape Town to strategize ways to challenge extractivism and to speak out against the violence inflicted onto human rights defenders and activists by the…
POWERLESS OP-ED (PART 2): We can’t just wave goodbye to Eskom – we need to fix it, and it’s possible
By Dominic Brown | Daily Maverick | 08 Feb 2023 Although many South Africans yearn to dump the state-owned power utility, fixing and maintaining Eskom’s power stations to boost energy availability is the quickest way to stabilise supply in the short to medium…
AbM STATEMENT: Amadiba Crisis Committee comrades are under threat – a call for solidarity
Last year our movement lost three leaders to assassination and another comrade to a police murder. On 21 January our comrade Thulani Maseko was assassinated in Swaziland. Political assassinations have often been used to repress dissent in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. …
Strategies to Resist Austerity!
AIDC is hosting a discussion on International and Historical Experiences of Austerity with Clara Mattei – author of the Capital Order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism on the 15 March 2023. Following the input from…
