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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...
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...
The People’s Dialogue Declaration on the Green Economy and in defense of mother earth and the commons, Johannesburg 7 May 2012
The People’s Dialogue, a network representing millions of African and Latin Americans organised in movements of rural women, small scale farmers, peasants, workers, feminist and research formations, is mindful that the discussion on the green economy takes place at...
Labour broking and social transformation | by Niall Reddy
COSATU’s recent decision to call a general strike that saw hundreds of thousands leaving the shop floor drew attention to an issue that has proceeded with relatively scant media attention given its importance in understanding contemporary South Africa.The data is...
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...
A Poisoned chalice: Liberation, ANC-style | by John S. Saul
There is good and obvious reason to celebrate the long history of the ANC: the organisation’s marked dedication over one hundred years to the cause of the betterment of the lot of the oppressed African people in South Africa. It has also sustained an honourable...




