By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 15 May 2024 South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 15 May 2024 South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 13 May 2024 All those contesting the May elections agree that the ‘better future’ must be ANC-free. Yet they are all wedded, in various ways, to the current economic status quo.…
By Andile Zulu South Africa’s economic stagnation and social decay stand as a damning testimony to the failure of neoliberal economic policies. With millions hungry, jobless and poor, one would hope that parties contesting the general elections would offer to forge…
By Andile Zulu Seeking to gain momentum from the disastrous failures and empty promises of the ruling ANC, political parties are once again desperately selling hope. Whether assuring us they will end crime or overcome load-shedding, political parties, old and new,…
By Jeff Rudin It’s a safe bet that few people have ever heard of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC), despite being an important part of the department of trade, industry and competition. We have Ayabonga Cawe, the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 16 Jan 2024 With the recently concluded COP28 being held in a prominent oil state, we now know that COP29 will be held in yet another oil state. Let’s spend 2024 learning the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Dec 2023 From what we already know about the government’s rescue plans for Eskom – plans widely supported by business and others – their emergency measures include more neoliberalism. That is not the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Dec 2023 South Africa’s hunger crisis is the result of deregulation and liberalisation of the economy, leaving basic food unaffordable for millions and entrenching inequality in a country where millions live…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 04 Dec 2023 There is no shortage of widely held explanations of why so little has been done about climate change. I think most of these explanations are wrong. This is part 2 of…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 03 Dec 2023 One of the certainties arising from scientific reports is that, at best, there is little prospect of restricting global warming to the maximum 1.5°C, to which the nations of the world…
