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In Bled Dry: How tax abuse, illicit financial flows and debt affect women and girls in Africa, we explore how tax abuse and illicit financial flows, and the resulting loss of public revenue, have pushed states towards regressive tax policies, debt, and austerity measures.

Over the years, AMCU and AIDC have deepened their collaboration in challenging the government’s neoliberal economic policies, which continue to entrench unemployment, inequality, and poverty.

The AIDC proposes alternatives to austerity, including enhancing tax progressivity and addressing tax evasion to increase public sector funding.

The 2025 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement announced by the Minister of Finance continues to prioritise profits over meeting people’s needs.

South Africa is in need of redistribution and growth.

This report examines the impacts and implications of shutting down coal plants and shifting to renewable energy.

This report on Decarbonising South Africa’s Transport Sector offers a strategic response to the unfolding restructuring of the transport sector, including the unbundling of Transnet and the growing trend toward privatization.

Over 10 million households across South Africa live in what is described as energy poverty, meaning these households lack safe, stable and affordable access to or provision of electricity. This report provides fresh data and analysis on the extent, character and structural causes of energy poverty through examining survey findings in eight sites conducted in communities across the city of eMalahleni.

Coastal communities have vowed to stand firm against Shell’s oil and gas exploration, prioritising environmental and cultural preservation.

The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) submitted a comment to the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ Discussion Document on the review of the White Paper on Local Government (WPLG).

The South African Tax Justice Working Group and allied organisations call on the South African government to match its global commitments with bold domestic action to #TaxTheRich and stop tax abuse by multinational corporations.

We, the undersigned, come together as civil society, trade unions, experts, and activists to establish a common position and agenda for advancing progressive tax reform in South Africa and abroad. We recognise the progressive role that taxation can play in…

SA must break from dependency and chart a new course that prioritises a people-centred development path.

Through collective action and solidarity with popular organisations, AIDC has spearheaded initiatives that challenge extractivism, advocate for the Right to Say No, and promote sustainable, inclusive alternatives to corporate-led development.

The AIDC notes with deep concern the World Bank’s approval of a $1.5 billion loan to South Africa. 

The conflict over the N2 toll highway’s route through Pondoland in the Eastern Cape is escalating. This publication chronicles the decade-long struggle, including interactions with SANRAL and the government.

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

The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) made written and oral submissions to the standing and select committees on finance on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals in May 2025.

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 Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) and the Public Services International (PSI) brought together union and federation leaders across South Africa to strengthen coordination around what a public sector union response to austerity should entail. This workshop is part…

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.