AIDC calls for a needs-based green industrialisation strategy to simultaneously overcome mass unemployment and climate change.
AIDC calls for a needs-based green industrialisation strategy to simultaneously overcome mass unemployment and climate change.
The National Treasury’s decision to withhold July 2026 equitable share transfers from 69 municipalities is a false solution that punishes the poor while failing to address systemic financial problems.
Across the country, communities are organising against budget cuts, privatisation, unemployment, and the erosion of public services.
The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) argues that the proposed fiscal framework for the 2026 Budget may worsen poverty and unemployment in South Africa, which is the most unequal country in the world.
Over the years, AMCU and AIDC have deepened their collaboration in challenging the government’s neoliberal economic policies, which continue to entrench unemployment, inequality, and poverty.
The AIDC proposes alternatives to austerity, including enhancing tax progressivity and addressing tax evasion to increase public sector funding.
The Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC) made written and oral submissions to the standing and select committees on finance on the fiscal framework and revenue proposals in May 2025.
We are concerned that very little is mentioned about how to address the problem of mass unemployment.
Replacing a VAT increase with budget cuts is not a victory for unemployed and working-class South Africans but a defeat.
