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.
Over 10 million households across South Africa live in what is described as energy poverty, meaning these households lack safe, stable and affordable access to or provision of electricity. This report provides fresh data and analysis on the extent, character and structural causes of energy poverty through examining survey findings in eight sites conducted in communities across the city of eMalahleni.
Last week, civil society organisations hosted the 7th African Regional Indaba on the United Nations binding treaty on business and human rights.
Our fight against austerity at home is intertwined with our fight against the genocide in Gaza, as both are manifestations of a global system that values profit and power over human dignity and life.
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…
PREAMBLE We, the social movements, civil society organisations, grassroots communities, lawyers, academics, experts and others, from several provinces of Mozambique and also from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Brazil, Cuba, France,…
By Boaventura Monjane and Anesu Dera | Daily Maverick | 02 Jul 2023 On 28 and 29 June, community members, popular formations and civil society organisations from across the African continent gathered in Johannesburg to participate in the African Regional Indaba…
Last year our movement lost three leaders to assassination and another comrade to a police murder. On 21 January our comrade Thulani Maseko was assassinated in Swaziland. Political assassinations have often been used to repress dissent in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. …