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Last week, civil society organisations hosted the 7th African Regional Indaba on the United Nations binding treaty on business and human rights.

We are concerned that very little is mentioned about how to address the problem of mass unemployment.

Cutting budgets for critical services only deepens inequality and punishes working families while failing to address the root causes of economic instability.

Replacing a VAT increase with budget cuts is not a victory for unemployed and working-class South Africans but a defeat. 

The economic outlook should prioritise overcoming poverty, unemployment and inequality, rather than focusing on debt stabilisation as the primary goal.

The government is captured. The poor are left to fend for themselves in a dog-eat-dog world.

There are many better options of where the money is.

People Against Budget Cuts to host a Speakout outside Parliament on Wednesday, 12 March 2025.

ACC’s proposal for an Alternative Inland Route for the N2 highway is a call for a balanced approach to development—one that values both progress and preservation.

The Public Investment Corporation and Financing a Just Energy Transition.

The People Against Budget Cuts, a coalition of civil society organisations, trade unions, and community groups, calls on the government to rethink its budget allocations and ensure that economic policies work for the people, not just the rich.

The Alternative Information and Development Centres (AIDC) research estimates the significant fiscal implications of over-inflating personal income tax brackets in South Africa. It argues that while intended to prevent “bracket creep,” this policy has inadvertently cost the national treasury R170-R198…

Join the People’s Assembly and demonstrations on the 18th and 19th February 2025.

This report covers six southern African countries deeply impacted by critical mineral extraction.

Counter-mapping is used worldwide by marginalised, often indigenous populations to contest top-down, extractive-oriented development plans and to showcase grassroots/community-led alternatives. 

The AIDC submission addresses the National Treasury’s fiscal policies, including the disproportionate weighting placed on debt-to-GDP as opposed to targeting reductions in poverty, inequality and unemployment.

Austerity is unfolding with the increased privatisation of the South African economy through Operation Vulindlela.

A feminist future requires fiscal and monetary policies that are determined by and serve the well-being of all people, not just the powerful few.

A coalition of trade unions, social movements, and progressive movements will march together in unity against government budget cuts.

These case studies show how profits are “shifted” within company groups through creative accounting tricks such as the use of
sales commissions, management fees, and loans between different branches of the same company structure. 

The AIDC, in partnership with the Institute for Economic Justice, supported by the #StopTheBleeding campaign and the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), submitted comments on South Africa’s Draft Global Minimum Tax Bill to the Finance Standing Committee.

Our fight against austerity at home is intertwined with our fight against the genocide in Gaza, as both are manifestations of a global system that values profit and power over human dignity and life.

Addressing the harms of austerity becomes increasingly tenuous under the Government of National Unity.

Amandla! Media to host a series of public forums.