With Friends like Tito Mboweni, Who Needs the IMF? Resist SA’s new structural adjustment programme 25 June 2020 Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget has proved that he is not fit to manage this crisis. The minister has completely ignored the immense…
With Friends like Tito Mboweni, Who Needs the IMF? Resist SA’s new structural adjustment programme 25 June 2020 Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget has proved that he is not fit to manage this crisis. The minister has completely ignored the immense…
Department of Trade and Industry must call for the WTO’s suspension of trade talks Public Services International | Letter to the Minister of Trade and Industry | 4 May 2020 As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, all governments…
As Southern Africa faces a socioeconomic catastrophe: We must break with capitalist globalisation and neoliberalism Statement by the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) |5 April, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great danger to the SADC region. If the…
Cry of the Xcluded launch statement: Let South Africa Work! Jobs, Dignity and Services!!!! The unemployment crisis South Africa finds itself at a precipice. The economic malaise currently being experienced places the nation at a point of no return. The…
Foreign investment: Curse rather than cure AIDC Press Release | 06 November 2019 South Africa needs investment that can dramatically reduce both unemployment and inequality, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This effectively calls for a reindustrialisation strategy such as…
Time for Treasury to Make Bold Decisions AIDC Statement | 29 October 2019 On the eve of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s second mid-term budget speech in office the writings on the wall. If the latest Medium-term expenditure framework and the…
Message of condolences on the Death of Professor David Sanders AIDC Statement | 02 September 2019 We join the many, nationally and globally in mourning the death of this great humanist, socialist, public health scholar and above all activist. David…
Scourge of Unemployment Shows Need for Drastic State Intervention AIDC Statement | 02 August 2019 In most other countries the news that more than 10.2 million citizens are unemployed would lead to mass calls for the President and Finance minister’s…
Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) | Press Release | 23 July 2019 With the help of weak national legislation, auditing firms, lawyers and banks, transnational corporations (TNCs) have created a world of secrecy, allowing them to act with almost…
Greater Transparency Needed on PIC Board AIDC Statement on the appointment of PIC Interim Board | 15 July, 2019 The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) notes the appointment of an interim Public Investment Corporation (PIC) board of directors (BoD).…
