In Bled Dry: How tax abuse, illicit financial flows and debt affect women and girls in Africa, we explore how tax abuse and illicit financial flows, and the resulting loss of public revenue, have pushed states towards regressive tax policies, debt, and austerity measures.
The People Against Budget Cuts, a coalition of civil society organisations, trade unions, and community groups, calls on the government to rethink its budget allocations and ensure that economic policies work for the people, not just the rich.
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”,…
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…
By Boaventura Monjane and Teresa Amal | Daily Maverick | 11 Jan 2023 The current crisis in Mozambique is due mainly to the inability of the state and the government to respond to the primary concerns of the Mozambican people. These include…
The Assembly of the Unemployed / Cry of the Xcluded is hosting a two-day National convergence for the implementation of a Basic Income Grant and putting an end to budget cuts ahead of the National Budget Day. It is becoming…
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…
