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JUST TRANSITION OP-ED: Social ownership of renewable energy — searching for the deck chairs long after the Titanic has sunk

By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 19 Sep 2023  Why do the European failures in transitioning to social ownership of energy get so little attention? South Africa needs to understand where potential pitfalls lie and grapple with them as a

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AIDC is hiring: Economic Justice Project Officer

The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is inviting interested applicants who meet the criteria to apply for the vacancy of the Economic Justice Project Officer. This is a full-time position – the contract ends in December 2024 AIDC is a

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Rights for the People rules for TNCs: First impressions on the updated draft treaty on TNCs and human rights

Statement of the Global Campaign, 11th of September 2023 The Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign) is a worldwide network of over 250 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and communities

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State-owned entities: A war zone between political and economic elites

By Andile Zulu The rapid collapse of state-owned entities continues to threaten South Africa’s political stability and intensifies the social crises created by a stagnant economy.  On 7 August, the Daily Maverick reported a story that captured the tragic realities

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AIDC climate justice digest

From 2009, the AIDC saw the necessity of integrating the ecological crisis and especially the climate crisis into its programmes and strategies, as a significant dimension of the overall crisis of civilisation which the world was facing. A major theme

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE OP-ED: Why do we allow the rich to rig the rules in their favour?

  By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Aug 2023  The very language of trade negotiations is the language of war. Once concluded, the trade agreements give way, with astonishing cynicism, to the language of double-speak and deception. “The problem

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A different, better South Africa needs more than just blaming the ANC

By Jeff Rudin  Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa. Re-birthing the South Africa so

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PANEL DISCUSSION: What constitutes a progressive perspective on our energy crisis?

The Progressive Citizenship Initiative will be hosting a panel discussion on ‘What constitutes a progressive perspective on our energy crisis? On the panel, will be Dominic Brown, Economic Justice Coordinator from the Alternative Information and Development Centre and Professor Mark

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OPINION | Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s keynote address ignores some facts

By Jeff Rudin I would go further than Mail & Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Ron Derby. He invited recipients of M&G Mornings (26 June) to read what he described as Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s “honest dissertation of the South African story”.  More than being “honest”,

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STATEMENT: The Right to Say No Campaign Rejects the Farce that is the MPRDA Review Summit!

On 13 July 2023, The Right to Say No Campaign joins mining-affected communities from various parts of the country in a picket against the Minerals Petroleum Resources Development Act Review Summit convened by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMRE) on

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