Solidarity with the APMDD’s Day of Action for Tax Justice
Solidarity with the APMDD’s Day of Action for Tax Justice AIDC Statement in solidarity with the APMDD’s Day of Action for Tax Justice | 23 September 2021 The past two years have fully exposed the disparities and injustice built into…
Global South Perspectives on IFFs, BEPS, and International Tax Reform
Global South Perspectives on IFFs, BEPS, and International Tax Reform 22 September 2021 | 11:00am GMT Hosted by the: Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC), Churches and Mining Network (CaM), and Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) Register:…
Time for unions to take the austerity bull by the horns
Public sector ‘retrenchments’: It’s time for unions to take the austerity bull by the horns New Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has promised a change in style from his predecessor, Tito Mboweni. But when he assures the public that there will be…
Amazon’s River Club venture is not about job creation
Jeff Bezos is neither an altruist nor a socialist, and Amazon’s River Club venture is not about job creation It should come as no surprise that those who would turn the River Club into Amazon’s African headquarters do so with jobs…
Gendered Impact of Covid 19 in South Africa
Gendered Impact of Covid 19 in South Africa Webinar on the Gendered Impact of Covid-19 | September 2021 On the 5th of March 2020, South Africa reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and has since experienced 3 waves. The…
Austerity budgeting (not yet) on trial at Constitutional Court
Austerity budgeting (not yet) on trial at Constitutional Court South Africans wait in a long line for social grants. The provision of social grants to fellow South Africans living on the margin could be imperilled by the decision to order the…
Unemployment Stats Show Failure of Austerity Policies, Time for a BIG
Unemployment Stats Show Failure of Austerity Policies, Time for a BIG Assembly of the Unemployed and the Alternative Information and Development Centre | Statement on the latest QLFS | 25 August, 2021 The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) and…
Law and austerity: Constitutional Court hears unions’ appeal on public sector wage agreement
Law and austerity: Constitutional Court hears unions’ appeal on public sector wage agreement Dick Forslund | DailyMaverick | 24 August, 2021 The Alternative Information and Development Centre fears that if the Labour Appeal Court judgment is left as it is,…
Global Tax Plan and How It Impacts South Africa with Dick Forslund
Global Tax Plan and How It Impacts South Africa with Dick Forslund Listen to AIDC Senior Economist Dr. Dick Forslund discussing the proposed G7 Global Tax Plan and its impact on South Africa. Via CII Radio Read more about the…
AIDC Board Members Join AMCU Commemoration of Marikana Massacre
AIDC Board Members Join AMCU Commemoration of Marikana Massacre On the 16th of August, 2021 the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), held a commemoration of the Marikana Massacre. Among the many participating in the commemoration were AIDC board…
Basic Income Grant Concerns Expose South Africa’s Developmental Dead End
Basic Income Grant Concerns Expose South Africa’s Developmental Dead End Jaco Oelofsen | AIDC Staff Blog | 16 August, 2021 Response to “MAMOKETE LIJANE: Income grant looks doable now, but what about when mining loses its shine?” In a recent…
AIDC Submission to Constitutional Court in the Appeal of Labour Court’s Public Sector Wages Judgement
AIDC Submission to Constitutional Court in the Appeal of Labour Appeals Court’s Public Sector Wages Judgement Alternative Information and Development Centre | Press Release | 12 August 2021 AIDC’s written submission to the Constitutional Court in the appeal against the…
What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality?
What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality? Bruce Baigrie, Maxine Bezuidenhout, Jonathan Cannard, Jaco Oelofson, Jeff Rudin and Keamogetswe Seipato* | Daily Maverick |29 July 2021 *The authors work at the Alternative Information & Development Centre Suggestions…
AIDC application to Constitutional Court to challenge reneging of the final year of the public sector wage agreement
AIDC application to Constitutional Court to challenge reneging of the final year of the public sector wage agreement Press Release | AIDC| 3 August 2021 The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) has applied to the Constitutional Court to be…
What About the Universal Basic Income Grant Mr President?
What About the Universal Basic Income Grant Mr President? Cry of the Xcluded & Assembly of the Unemployed | Statement | 29 July, 2021 On Sunday evening South African President Cyril Ramaphosa offered his in-frequent dictats to the nation via…
The Curse of Titanium – The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape
The Curse of Titanium – The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape Centre for Civil Society – Special Webinar Series The Resource Curse Our Seminar Series continues online for 2021 – please join us for webinar…
Seven tragic days in July: Trying to make (some) sense of South Africa by hearing old themes with new(er) clarity
Seven tragic days in July: Trying to make (some) sense of South Africa by hearing old themes with new(er) clarity Jeff Rudin | DailyMaverick | 20 July 2021 The untold tragedies of our days in July 2021 urge us to continue…
African Response to G7/OECD Tax Proposals
Jaco Oelofsen | Webinar Report | 26 July 2021 On 7 July Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC), African Forum on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) co-hosted a webinar titled “African Response to G7 Tax…
Amadiba Donate Food to KZN riot victims
Amadiba Donate Food to KZN riot victims Press Alert | 23 July, 2021 Following the week of devastation and rioting across the country that left many destitute, without food or shelter across KZN, the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) have elected…
Unemployed movements demand a decent BIG to address South Africa’s hunger crisis
Unemployed movements demand a decent BIG to address South Africa’s hunger crisis Press Statement | Assembly of the Unemployed | 21 July 2021 As the Assembly of the Unemployed we have noted that President Ramaphosa says that implementing a basic…
A Wasted Opportunity: Little to Celebrate in OECD Tax Deal
A Wasted Opportunity: Little to Celebrate in OECD Tax Deal Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) | STATEMENT | 05 July, 2021 At the OECD’s Inclusive Framework meeting last week, 130 countries, including South Africa, put their support behind the OECD’s…
African Response to G7 Tax proposals
African Response to G7 Tax proposals Join AIDC, AFRODAD and TJNA webinar African Response to the G7 Tax proposals, 7 July 2021 at 14:00 (CAT). Register in advance here: https://tinyurl.com/yvtaydpx As organisations advocating for social economic and environmental justice in…
Youth Day 2021
Youth Day Commemoration 2021 Co-hosted by Africa Unite, Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC), Commercial Stevedoring Agriculture and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU), South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) – Cape Metro Region – Back2Work Campaign and Trust Community Outreach and…
No Jobs and no Basic Income – Unemployment Stats Downplay SA’s Jobs Crisis
No Jobs and no Basic Income – Unemployment Stats Downplay SA’s Jobs Crisis By the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) and the Assembly of the Unemployed (AoU) 03 June, 2021 The AIDC and the AoU note the results of…
