GEPF, budget austerity and the Eskom debt crisis: The R1.8 trillion and growing Elephant in the Room, Part 1: GEPF, budget austerity and the Eskom debt crisis Finance Minister Mboweni’s Special Appropriation Bill added R59bn over two years to Eskom’s…
Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | Press Release | 23 July 2019 With the help of weak national legislation, auditing firms, lawyers and banks, transnational corporations (TNCs) have created a world of secrecy, allowing them to act with almost…
#Budget2019: Out of the Zuma frying pan straight into the privatisation furnace Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | 20 February 2019 Tito Mboweni’s budget signals a significant shift in orientation towards privatisation. The break with the Zuma regime is…
#BudgetDay: 8 points for Mboweni Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) | 20 February 2019 We are not as helpless as we may think, there are alternatives to the budget we can expect from Mboweni today. Here are 8 points…
#MTBPS 2018: 7 things you need to know Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | 24 October 2018 No major surprises, in business as usual medium term budget policy statement. No aggressive austerity measures, but this doesn’t…
What will Mboweni do? Ahead of the MTBPS we call on the finance minister to radically break from neoliberalism – alternatives exist Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) Economic Justice Team | 22 October 2018 In post-Apartheid South Africa, the…
Role of Public Utilities in Transforming the Energy Sector From Neoliberalism to a Just Transition for Energy Democracy Eskom (South Africa’s) is in deep crisis, the state of South Africa’s public utility is not unique to South Africa indicative in…
Intersectionality: Materialism or culturalism? Michael Nassen Smith | Amandla | 23 August 2018 Intersectionality has become a “master” concept in progressive circles today. With origins in critical legal studies in the USA, it has quickly spread across the globe…
Review: Learning for Living’: A much needed publication Siyabulele Mama | Amandla | 24 August 2018 ‘Learning for Living’ is a book that argues for an emancipatory and humanist pedagogy. 2018 marks 21 years since the death of Paulo…
End Illicit Financial Flows and Wage Evasion Transnational Corporations (TNC) wield a massive amount of power in the global economy. They use that power to undermine the sovereignty of nation states and consolidate themselves as the real rulers of the…
