Load reduction is not a technical adjustment. It is a political statement about whose lives matter.
Load reduction is load shedding for the poor
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Inequality
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.
How the retirement contribution deduction perpetuates inequality in South Africa
South Africa’s inequality has not changed in ten years, with the wealthiest 10% holding 86% of the country’s total wealth. Yet there is still a tax policy that contributes to maintaining inequality. Treasury has the potential to address this in the upcoming 2026 budget announcement. Will they do it?
SA needs to reject the dogma that wages are a burden
Suppressing wages suppresses demand, and suppressed demand suffocates investment.
Unemployment is exceptionally high — even if elites are trying to pretend otherwise
South Africa doesn’t have a “statistical-error” unemployment crisis; it has a jobs crisis.
Life without wages: the scale, the reasons and the alternatives
The post-apartheid mass unemployment crisis is rooted in the structure of the South African economy.
What, really, did the ANC deliver? Tokenistic social policy
What has the South African government delivered in 20 years? A massive welfare state with 16 million grant recipients (nearly a third of the population); 95% of the people served with clean water access; a rising rate of matriculation by 12th graders; a dramatic...
20 Years of democracy: The State of Gender
Free to do the heavy lifting: after 20 years of democracy South African women remain exploited, brutalized and devalued . Has 20 years of democracy given black rural and urban poor women land, housing, health, jobs, freedom of sexual exploitation, safety and...
20 years of democracy: not yet Uhuru
As we mark 20 years since the end of apartheid and the advent of democracy, there is a deep rupturing of the post-apartheid social consensus in the face of intensifying class struggle. The signals for its end are the Marikana massacre, the great mineworkers' strike...