By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 15 May 2024 South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 15 May 2024 South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 14 May 2024 The market, having been made king, orphaned the meeting of urgent, post-apartheid societal needs. The replacement of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) by Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) policies…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 16 Jan 2024 With the recently concluded COP28 being held in a prominent oil state, we now know that COP29 will be held in yet another oil state. Let’s spend 2024 learning the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Dec 2023 From what we already know about the government’s rescue plans for Eskom – plans widely supported by business and others – their emergency measures include more neoliberalism. That is not the…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Dec 2023 South Africa’s hunger crisis is the result of deregulation and liberalisation of the economy, leaving basic food unaffordable for millions and entrenching inequality in a country where millions live…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 04 Dec 2023 There is no shortage of widely held explanations of why so little has been done about climate change. I think most of these explanations are wrong. This is part 2 of…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 03 Dec 2023 One of the certainties arising from scientific reports is that, at best, there is little prospect of restricting global warming to the maximum 1.5°C, to which the nations of the world…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 19 Sep 2023 Why do the European failures in transitioning to social ownership of energy get so little attention? South Africa needs to understand where potential pitfalls lie and grapple with them as a…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Aug 2023 The very language of trade negotiations is the language of war. Once concluded, the trade agreements give way, with astonishing cynicism, to the language of double-speak and deception. “The problem…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 11 Jul 2023 Out of a group of 15 classmates who matriculated together in 1960, only three have remained in South Africa. The group still stays in touch, with those outside the…