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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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BEYOND THE RAINBOW OP-ED: Narrow views of SA from afar may be bleak, but the reasons for hope are worth salvaging

  By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 11 Jul 2023 Out of a group of 15 classmates who matriculated together in 1960, only three have remained in South Africa. The group still stays in touch, with those outside the

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BUSINESS ABUSES OP-ED: Corporate human rights abuses can be curbed across Africa with buy-in from governments to honour the UN treaty

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

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WATER-RELATED HEALTH CRISES OP-ED (PART TWO): Cholera — examining the horrific consequences of government’s own contaminated policy choices

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

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