Join the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 12PM as they host a webinar on Climate Change and the Financing of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) with Andile Zulu, AIDC Energy Democracy Officer as a guest…
Join the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 12PM as they host a webinar on Climate Change and the Financing of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) with Andile Zulu, AIDC Energy Democracy Officer as a guest…
By Brian Ashley, Dick Forslund and Jaco Oelofsen According to media reports, a deal has been struck outside Court between the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and Iqbal Survé’s company AYO Technology. Out of the R4.7-billion of GEPF’s funds that GEPF’s manager…
In January, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) granted Eskom an 18.65% price hike effective from 1 April 2023 and an 18.49% hike for municipalities effective from 1 July 2023. Nersa said it made its determination on Eskom’s…
Yesterday, the South African Reserve Bank made the outrageous decision to raise the repo rate by 50 basis points, up to 7.75%, marking the ninth consecutive increase since November 2021. This is a deeply regressive decision. It will further pull…
Last week, Southern Africa and the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power hosted a two-day #RightToSayNo national workshop attended by over 70 activists from mining communities across the country. They discussed a number of issues under the theme: Building the Just…
On Human Rights Day, 21 March 2023, over 70 activists from mining communities across the country gathered in Xolobeni, Eastern Cape to commemorate the life of fallen human rights defenders including Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, Chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee who…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 07 Mar 2023 One has indeed to be rich to afford the comfort of doing one’s bit for slowing down climate change. Were it not for neglected railway and underground systems, along with the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 27 Feb 2023 There was nothing exceptional in what Big Capital undertook to do in South Africa. No ruling class anywhere in the world has ever voluntarily relinquished power to those they used to…
On the 6th and 7th of February community activists from South Africa and Swaziland gathered in Cape Town to strategize ways to challenge extractivism and to speak out against the violence inflicted onto human rights defenders and activists by the…
Earlier this month, the Cry of the Xcluded launched a Year of Mass Action campaign, since then, they have held speak-outs, teach-ins, protests and demonstrations to create awareness and to channel the anger of South Africans to where it belongs.…
