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As Eastern Cape communities are hit by spiralling food inflation and unemployment rates of 42.4%, the province’s elderly residents are using their state pensions to look after families in crisis and often have to rely on loans in the last weeks of the month.

Ultimately, the only adequate response to climate change is the government’s effective declaration of war against it.

One has indeed to be rich to afford the comfort of doing one’s bit for slowing down climate change. Were it not for neglected railway and underground systems, along with the worldwide chaos on public roads and the opportunism of presenting electric vehicles as ‘green’ and green as good, not man...

The country’s dalliance with privatisation threatens to push up electricity costs, undermining energy security

Government's debt and its impact on public spending is a concern for the the Budget Justice Coalition representing civic organisations, which says it hopes the finance minister will not use the social budget to fund the crises.

Trade unions are urging the finance minister to refrain from implementing austerity budgets in the public sector.

This week the Sapes Trust will be hosting an online dialogue around the question, ‘Who killed Thulani Maseko?’

South Africa is clearly trying to have its cake and eat it too. Demanding climate finance from the international community, while wanting to continue destroying the climate through new fossil fuels. It’s for this reason that South Africa’s Climate Justice Charter Movement is petitioning the int...

A universal basic income will enhance the economy by enabling more money to circulate among people

The AIDC says the government is not transparent with the public on the terms and conditions of these loans, the payment period and the interest rates.