Maps Are Now Our Spears: Launch of New Participatory Digital Counter-Maps of Xolobeni
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.
AIDC submission on the 2024 Revised Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
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.
AIDC statement on the 2024 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)
Austerity is unfolding with the increased privatisation of the South African economy through Operation Vulindlela.
Austerity is a Feminist Issue Report
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.
Stop Budget Cuts: Defend our basic services!
A coalition of trade unions, social movements, and progressive movements will march together in unity against government budget cuts.
Submission: Draft Global Minimum Tax Bill
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.
Anti-Austerity Forum Solidarity statement: Apartheid in Palestine and South Africa
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.
AIDC Political Economy Working Group: Austerity and the crisis of social reproduction
Addressing the harms of austerity becomes increasingly tenuous under the Government of National Unity.
Amandla! Forums: Shaping the future of public discourse
Amandla! Media to host a series of public forums.
AIDC Calls for Global South Unity at 2nd Meeting of UN Tax Body
This week, representatives of states from around the world are meeting in New York to negotiate the future of the international tax system.
Statement: Civil Society condemns the violence in Entembeni, Kwa-Zulu Natal
The Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), together with partner organisations, condemns the senseless killing of Sbusiso Hlongwane, a resident of Matshansundu village, over the weekend. The ARD has learnt that Mr Hlongwane, a vocal land rights activist, is the latest…
AIDC expresses solidarity to #RejectFinanceBill2024 Kenyan Anti-Austerity Protesters
In response to Kenya’s debt owed to the IMF and other international lenders, President William Ruto has implemented a number of austerity policies, defined as deep cuts to government spending combined with regressive taxes which disproportionately affect the working class…
African Regional Indaba on UN binding treaty takes place this week
Civil society organisations are hosting the fifth African Regional Indaba on the UN binding treaty on business and human rights at the ANEW Hotel Parktonian in Johannesburg on 20 and 21 June 2024. In the lead-up to the tenth session…
NO MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE OP-ED: While capitalism invites corruption, neoliberalism guarantees it — mainly via outsourcing (Part 3)
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 15 May 2024 South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to…
NO MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE OP-ED: Neoliberalism has intensified poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and austerity (Part 2)
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 14 May 2024 The market, having been made king, orphaned the meeting of urgent, post-apartheid societal needs. The replacement of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) by Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) policies…
NO MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE OP-ED: A better future for all has been stunted by impoverished options (Part 1)
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 13 May 2024 All those contesting the May elections agree that the ‘better future’ must be ANC-free. Yet they are all wedded, in various ways, to the current economic status quo.…
Universal Basic Income Coalition Position Paper
The introduction of the COVID-19 SRD grant in 2020 galvanised civil society to work together to advance the goal of comprehensive social protection. In March 2021, civil society stakeholders came together in a forum to collectively advocate for the extension…
PART TWO: Rise Mzansi promises social democracy but delivers neoliberalism
By Andile Zulu South Africa’s economic stagnation and social decay stand as a damning testimony to the failure of neoliberal economic policies. With millions hungry, jobless and poor, one would hope that parties contesting the general elections would offer to forge…
AIDC is hiring: Tax Justice Project Officer
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is inviting interested applicants who meet the criteria to apply for the vacancy of the Tax Justice Project Officer. Full-time 12-month contract Key Responsibilities Undertake research related to taxation and domestic resource mobilisation in…
May Day Statement: Let us strive to create a future where no worker is left behind!
On this International Workers’ Day, the Alternative Information and Development Centre urges the working class to reflect on the significance of this occasion and the status of workers’ rights in our country. This year, the celebration of Worker’s Day is…
PART ONE: Rise Mzansi promises social democracy, but delivers neoliberalism
By Andile Zulu Seeking to gain momentum from the disastrous failures and empty promises of the ruling ANC, political parties are once again desperately selling hope. Whether assuring us they will end crime or overcome load-shedding, political parties, old and new,…
AIDC Debt Conference Report sheds light on real-life impact of austerity measures!
On February 14th, independent activists, economists, and representatives from trade unions, social movements, civil society, and academic and government institutions met for a two-day conference on public debt and austerity. This conference was hosted in Cape Town ahead of the…
Trade agreements: The little known agent of global inequality
By Jeff Rudin It’s a safe bet that few people have ever heard of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC), despite being an important part of the department of trade, industry and competition. We have Ayabonga Cawe, the…
Submission: Draft Global Minimum Tax Bill
On March 31 2024, the AIDC, in partnership with the Institute for Economic Justice, submitted comments on South Africa’s Draft Global Minimum Tax Bill (the draft Bill) to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury. We were supported in…
