Economic transformation must come before fiscal surpluses. South Africa urgently needs large-scale public investment in public services, social protection, and economic and social infrastructure.
Economic transformation must come before fiscal surpluses. South Africa urgently needs large-scale public investment in public services, social protection, and economic and social infrastructure.
In response to Kenya’s debt owed to the IMF and other international lenders, President William Ruto has implemented a number of austerity policies, defined as deep cuts to government spending combined with regressive taxes which disproportionately affect the working class…
The introduction of the COVID-19 SRD grant in 2020 galvanised civil society to work together to advance the goal of comprehensive social protection. In March 2021, civil society stakeholders came together in a forum to collectively advocate for the extension…
We started the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) in 2009. I think what gave rise to it was two things: the failures of the municipality which came out of IDP meetings. And the feeling that the politicians are taking us for…
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] notes the tabling of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the Joint sitting of both the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, by President Ramaphosa last night.…
US Support for TRIPS Waiver: Good, But Not Good Enough Peoples Vaccine Campaign | Statement | 07 May, 2021 The Peoples Vaccine Campaign [PVC] of South Africa welcomes the US government’s support for a waiver of provisions of the World Trade Organisation’s…
PVC Steering Committee Statement on the No Fault Compensation Fund for Covid-19 Vaccines. Peoples Vaccine Campaign | Statement | April 2020 The Peoples Vaccine Campaign (PVC), which was established in January 2021 in response to the slow progress made by…
