By Boaventura Monjane and Anesu Dera | Daily Maverick | 02 Jul 2023 On 28 and 29 June, community members, popular formations and civil society organisations from across the African continent gathered in Johannesburg to participate in the African Regional Indaba…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 27 Jun 2023 Understanding the background to the neoliberal political economy that underpins government policy choices is a starting point for addressing the changes needed to reduce the excesses of our country’s poverty, unemployment…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 26 Jun 2023 The first of two articles examining water-related health crises in South Africa asks why we have learnt nothing from previous crises and why our government, having responded to each new crisis…
International tax and wage evasion by multi-or transnational corporations is a serious issue for all countries, but especially for Global South states with large extractives sectors. It is in these countries where the social and environmental damage of mining occurs,…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 25 May 2023 The claims of the green economy, together with the green economy’s long history, provide the essential backdrop to the question of why, after a gestation of 34 years, it still…
Kganyago’s “fight against inflation” increases unemployment and economic stagnation. It is time for Governor Kganyago to resign. Currency markets are unpredictable, but it is obvious that the SARB Governor Lesetja Kganyago and his Monetary Policy Committee (which unanimously approved the…
By Andile Zulu | Mail & Guardian | 18 MAY 2023 Founded in July 2013, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) appeared as a compelling alternative in an increasingly stagnant electoral landscape. Rejecting the stale and impotent liberalism of the Democratic Alliance (DA),…
On the 29th of March, the AIDC submitted its comments on the Draft Companies Amendment Regulations. The Draft Regulations were published by the Department of Trade and Industry for comment, and follow-on from the General Laws Amendment Act in aiming…
The Alternative Information and Development Centre; the Center on Race, Law and Justice; the Land and Accountability Research Centre; and the Legal Resources Centre present: A Symposium on Tenure Reform and Land Tenure Security. Conference Details Date: Monday, 24 April 2023 Time: 14h00-17h00…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 11 Apr 2023 Applying Rhodes’s racial capitalism to post-1994 South Africa obfuscates the entire matter of what former president Thabo Mbeki called the ‘black bourgeoisie’ whose creation, consolidation and expansion has been one of…
