An interview with former Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies, surveys the damage to the South African economy from the US tariffs and suggests that greater African cooperation is the way to go.
World Trade Organisation
The National Dialogue: crisis, opportunity, and the challenge for the Left
The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
The prospects for localisation
Beneficiation and localisation are often approached uncritically, especially in political discourse, where they have become fashionable terms.
Government policies to blame for SAs’ chronic mass unemployment
The unemployment crisis in South Africa is unsustainable. It underpins and worsens many of the social ills we face in our country.
BRICS TRADE UNION FORUM: LABOUR SHOULD NOT BE SPOKESPERSONS OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2023, THE MAIN trade union federations from BRICS countries converged in Durban for their annual trade union forum (BRICS TUF). The theme was “Cooperation for Fair and Inclusive Development for all Peoples of the World…” Their gathering was...
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 Crises of Civilisation – Towards a Post-Carbon Economy
The Crises of Civilisation - Towards a Post-Carbon Economy18 – 20 October 2010Heia Safari Ranch, Johannesburg The Cape Town-based Alternate Information and Development Centre (AIDC), together with the Latin American-based Peoples Dialogue will be hosting a Crisis of...
Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived
Obituaries for the Islamic Republic of Iran appeared even before it was born. In the hectic months of 1979—before the Islamic Republic had been officially declared—many Iranians as well as foreigners, academics as well as journalists, participants as well as...






