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Adcorp and CDE wrong about productivity decline

Adcorp and CDE wrong about productivity decline

Press statement from AIDC, 14 September 2011 Arguing for cutting workers' wages, Adcorp and Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) mislead media and the public. The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) and the labour broker Adcorp continue to argue for...

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Economic policy PR without scruples

Originally in Business Day, 2012-03-05 Adcorp’s method of measuring employment "generates such massive employment levels that it does away with SA’s unemployment problem in one fell swoop, lowering the unemployment rate to around 5%", write Dr Kerr and Prof Wittenberg...

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Parliament resorts to censorship

Parliament resorts to censorship

As per the Sunday Times editorial below, the democratic Parliament of South Africa has resorted to censorship to block legitimate concerns of a rising authoritarianism and intolerance of critique. The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) was stopped...

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