The real reasons behind South Africa’s R11bn loan from the World Bank By Dick Forslund 07 Feb 2022 | Originally published by Daily Maverick The government is about to get a $750-million (about R11-billion) loan from the World Bank. The loan is said…
The real reasons behind South Africa’s R11bn loan from the World Bank By Dick Forslund 07 Feb 2022 | Originally published by Daily Maverick The government is about to get a $750-million (about R11-billion) loan from the World Bank. The loan is said…
RIGHT2WORK – GOVERNMENT MUST EMPLOY EVERYONE WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK According to the expanded definition of unemployment released in the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey by Statistics SA, 12.48 million people are now unemployed. This is a staggering figure,…
A primer on illicit financial flows, tax and wage evasion in South Africa South Africa is a nation approaching breaking point. Despite vast mineral wealth, modern infrastructure, and other economic advantages, the country faces a crisis of economic injustice. The…
What is free trade and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement? Trade Policy Brief | Alternative Information & Development Centre | Jonathan Cannard, 2021 Trade agreements since the 1990s have locked states into the paradigm of “free trade,” which relies…
To mark the 25th anniversary of AIDC, our Board Chair, Noor Nieftagodien, and Brian Ashley, our founding Director, look back at 25 years of building a left politics in South Africa. Over 40 comrades gave tributes to comrade Brian Ashley…
AFTER THE 2021 LOCAL government elections on 1st November, the overall architecture of the neoliberal local government system will remain largely unchallenged. A major factor enabling this is the strategic and programmatic weaknesses of progressive mass working class organisations, and…
The Global South Needs a Just Alternative to the OECD Deal: Lessons from South Africa By Jaco Oelofsen (Alternative Information & Development Centre) | Originally published by the Global Alliance For Tax Justice | 4 October 2021 The Global South…
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…
Public sector jobs under attack Dick Forslund | Amandla 77 | August/September 2021 A day or two before the Budget Speech in February 2020, the state employer met with the unions and announced that the third year of the 2018…
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:…
