The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
The National Dialogue: crisis, opportunity, and the challenge for the Left
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Gen Z will lead the people’s revolution in Kenya
*This article was first published on The Elephant. Something truly remarkable happened in Nairobi on 18 June. For the first time since Kenya’s independence, a people-driven movement ignited largely by Gen Z (those born after 1997, also known as the fully “digitally...
GOING BEYOND FAILED LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM
COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
THE PUBLIC PATHWAY TO A JUST TRANSITION
TEN YEARS AGO, IN JUNE 2012, AT the Rio+20 global climate talks in Rio de Janeiro, trade unions attending the meeting raised the critical need for an alternative narrative to the “green growth” model of addressing climate change. Those discussions were the beginning...
SRI LANKA: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CATASTROPHE
THE SRI LANKAN catastrophe persists with no signs of respite. The terrible economic crisis has sparked an unprecedented mass protest that started after the Sri Lankan government defaulted on its external debt obligations in April 2022. The previous Prime Minister,...
Samantha Ashman, Ben Fine, Seeraj Mohamed and Susan Newman: Answers Needed on Bank’s ‘Policy by Stealth’
As much as 23% of SA’s wealth went abroad in 2007, according to research from the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Programme at Wits University. These outflows amounted to more than R450bn that could have been used for domestic investment, job creation...