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WE NEED TO DEVELOP a perspective and strategy for financing a public pathway to an energy transition; it must be capable of addressing energy poverty and climate protection. The current neoliberal approach to climate finance is based on loans, whether at...
ON 23RD FEBRUARY, FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the third extremely harsh austerity budget in three years. In this budget, the Treasury and the whole government follow through on the budget cuts announced in the Mid Term Budget in November. And they are...
…We face social and economic disasters associated with having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world…Unemployment and the associated social crises of gender-based violence, substance abuse, racism and xenophobia are a national emergency.
The struggle against austerity, against wage cuts and retrenchments in the public sector, and the struggle against corruption are intimately linked. They provide the bridge for building the necessary worker / community alliance.
Ramaphosa has made it clear that he is firmly committed to the same old, same old – Minerals Energy Finance complex.
Earn dollars from digging minerals from the ground and getting them out of the country.
Ramaphosa instead of Zuma? Does it make a difference? Clearly, the crisis in South Africa runs much deeper than Zuma.
In his State of the Nation address of 26 June 2014, President Zuma called for "a radical transformation of the energy sector, to develop a sustainable energy mix that comprises coal, solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear energy ". Not content with building Medupi and...
In death Margaret Thatcher has caused further division. The left has failed to convince enough people of the alternatives. In 1966, a little more than a year after Martin Luther King won the Nobel peace prize, only 33% of Americans had a favourable view of him, as...
The economic crisis that has shaken the world may have started in Wall Street, but it has been made much worse by the actions of both the European institutions and European member states.Much of the so-called debt crisis was caused not by states spending too much, but...