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The focus this week includes: a #Tech4Rights Expo; a national conference on Combating Illicit Financial Flows; the impact of Covid-19 on the existing health crisis and also African civic society organisations; the Way Forward on the Trips Waiver, a webinar on “Disinformation destroys democrac...
The Alternative Information and Development Centre fears that if the Labour Appeal Court judgment is left as it is, it will be open for the courts to take sides in the economic policy debate on any issue. We also believe that fiscal policy issues are crucially not about affordability in general...
Seven tragic days in July: Trying to make (some) sense of South Africa by hearing old themes with new(er) clarity Jeff Rudin The untold tragedies of our days in July 2021 urge us to continue dreaming. This is how we change ourselves and the world that creates us as we, reciprocally, create, sustain and pass it on to everyone else. For us as South Africans, we can begin realising Martin Luther King’s dream by moving way beyond the chimeral securities of race and its racial thinking. © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Jeff Rudin works at the Alternative...
Unlike the early contributions – including those in Daily Maverick’s “Age of Anarchy” series of 15 July 2021 – I, with the luxury of thinking time, might be able to suggest layers of complexity difficult to reach by the demands of instant comment. Underlining these commentaries is the need for introspection, distilled into two fundamental questions: how did we get here and what is to be done? The single dominant answer to both is various forms of the failure of Transformation. This is well captured by Andrew Gasnolar: “The lived experience of the vast majority continues to be sha...
Sourced from Voice of the Cape The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) and the Assembly of the Unemployed (AoU) note the results of the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) with concern. The results of the survey show that unemployment in South Africa has reached some of the highest levels in the countryâs history. It is the youth unemployment who make up the majority of the unemployed. The AIDC and the AoU believe that austerity policies by the government will only make the situation worse. The latest QLFS results show that the official unemployment rate increa...