From the earliest days of post-Apartheid South Africa, major corporations have corrupted the state by offering bribes in order to get lucrative contracts.
RESTORE PUBLIC SERVICE TO STEM CORRUPTION
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Amandla
WILL NEOLIBERALISM FALL
THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD are being urged by the great advocates and defenders of capitalism to ditch neoliberalism and use the great power of the state, as they have with the pandemic,
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
As lockdowns become the main strategy of governments to contain the spread of the virus, the onset of a new global recession will accelerate.
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE
Over 10 million South Africans cannot find work. 12 million by some methods of calculation. At least 38% of the workforce.
LEFT ECONOMIC STRATEGY AND THE STATE
We should make a serious effort to understand the reasons behind the public disinterest in supporting progressive economic ideas.
UNEMPLOYMENT IS A CRISIS: WE MUST JOIN TOGETHER AND ACT
…Youth unemployment is hovering close to 70% and the unemployment rate for women is 42%. A generation is growing up who have no thought that they will ever have a job.
SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.
ESKOM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE JUST TRANSITION
The coal-dependent electricity sector is responsible for almost 60% of total greenhouse gas emissions. South Africa has become, per capita, one of the most carbon intensive polluters in the world.
TIME TO REBUILD, TIME TO RETHINK
The anti-capitalist moment has gone. Can it be regenerated? This is not so easy to answer, especially in a context in which globally there is a shift to the right.