The government must acknowledge the severe unemployment crisis we’re facing and declare it a national emergency.
Crisis of unemployment
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Corruption
Mass unemployment by design: rethinking South Africa’s manufactured economic consensus
South Africa’s ongoing and worsening mass unemployment stems from a deliberate, market-friendly, and pro-business economic consensus that has proven ineffective over the past 30 years.
The crisis of a nation betrayed
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
Nepal’s protests are the result of a blocked revolution
When Nepal became a republic in 2008, it aroused hopes for a fundamental transformation of Nepali society. The inability of Nepal’s left parties to deliver on those hopes created a mood of discontent among young people that exploded over the last month.
The EFF’s Insourcing Bill: rebuild the state
The Insourcing Bill is a political and moral commitment to rebuild the state and put an end to the corruption and inefficiency of outsourcing.
Can we blame migrants for unemployment?
We need to build international solidarity to fight for better working conditions for all.
BUILDING SOLIDARITY AGAINST XENOPHOBIA
THE 13TH OF JUNE 2022 marked 42 years since the brutal assassination of Walter Rodney, the Guyanese activist and historian. His most influential book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, has been described as “a priceless weapon of theory and history that restores the...
Letters
Human Rights Commission defends right to know Dear Amandla! AMANDLA! READERS WILL BE PLEASED TO know that in a recent landmark decision the Human Rights Commission (HRC)found that owners of private space used commercially for public purposes have no right of...
“Employ People As They Are”: Towards People-Centred Development
On June 4th, PowerFM 98.7 radio host Eusebius McKaiser interviewed AIDC Senior Researcher Dick Forslund regarding South Africa's current economic prospects and policy trajectory. Following is a partial transcript. PowerFM: Welcome, Dick. When we spoke yesterday, it...