The Alternative Information & Development Centre, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, Iglesias y Minería and the Justiça nos Trilhos will be hosting a webinar on Understanding Illicit Financial Flows from the Perspective of Workers and Communities in…
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…
International tax and wage evasion by multi-or transnational corporations is a serious issue for all countries, but especially for Global South states with large extractives sectors. It is in these countries where the social and environmental damage of mining occurs,…
Context: The escalation of load shedding and Eskom’s general debilitation has exploded into a national crisis. Unfortunately for South Africans, the government has not confronted this crisis with effective and just solutions. After years of short-sighted policy choices, the government…
AIDC is hosting a discussion on International and Historical Experiences of Austerity with Clara Mattei – author of the Capital Order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism on the 15 March 2023. Following the input from…
On 21 January 2022, the World Bank approved a $750 million (~R11.4 billion) loan to assist the South African fiscus. As part of the Bank’s “development policy loan” (DPL) programme, this loan is expected to have an interest rate of…
RIGHT2WORK – GOVERNMENT MUST EMPLOY EVERYONE WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK According to the expanded definition of unemployment released in the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey by Statistics SA, 12.48 million people are now unemployed. This is a staggering figure,…
Climate Change and Energy Advocacy Officer Deputy Director Economic and Budget justice Advocacy Officer Media and Communications Officer About us AIDC was formed in 1996 in response to the democratic transition in South Africa and the new opportunities and challenges…
Source: Amandla! Magazine Issue 46 Editorial Since Nenegate, 9 December 2015, we have all become extras in a Hollywood Thriller – “Apocalypse Downgrade”. The hero of the movie is our own dashing Pravin Gordhan. His adversary, the wicked but mysterious Standudnpho.…
Abstracts Gender Concerns in Climate Change need serious attention of all interested in sustainable development. Women in many developing countries are responsible for climatically sensitive tasks such as securing food, water and energy which ensure the life and well-being of…
