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The Alternative Information and Development Centre is focused on fighting for a just transition to a low-carbon, wage-led, sustainable and equitable economy.

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MEDIA STATEMENT: UBIC has urgently written to Parliament Portfolio Committee on Social Development, warning that National National Treasury new budget conditions for SASSA could plunge millions of South Africa’s most vulnerable into deeper poverty and exclusion.

MEDIA STATEMENT: <a href="/UBIC_ZA/">UBIC</a> has urgently written to Parliament Portfolio Committee on <a href="/The_DSD/">Social Development</a>, warning that National <a href="/TreasuryRSA/">National Treasury</a> new budget conditions for <a href="/OfficialSASSA/">SASSA</a> could plunge millions of South Africa’s most vulnerable into deeper poverty and exclusion.
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🚨 The conflict over the N2 toll highway route through Pondoland in the Eastern Cape is intensifying. Check out our publication detailing the decade-long struggle of Amadiba and their interactions with SANRAL and the government. #HandsOffAmadiba #Right2SayNo

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ANNOUNCEMENT🔔 The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-Southern Africa is pleased to announce the 2025 installment of the dialogue series on Global Polycrisis. Dialogue dates and time will be disseminated in time close to the event. #GlobalPolycrisis #TranformativeMultilateralism

ANNOUNCEMENT🔔

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-Southern Africa is pleased to announce the 2025 installment of the dialogue series on Global Polycrisis.

Dialogue dates and time will be disseminated in time close to the event.

#GlobalPolycrisis
#TranformativeMultilateralism
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🚨𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: AIDC expresses deep concern over the World Bank’s approval of a $1.5 billion loan to South Africa. This move, backed by National Treasury, signals a troubling shift towards the privatisation of essential public assets and services. Read our full statement linked

🚨𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: AIDC expresses deep concern over the World Bank’s approval of a $1.5 billion loan to South Africa. This move, backed by <a href="/TreasuryRSA/">National Treasury</a>, signals a troubling shift towards the privatisation of essential public assets and services. Read our full statement linked
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“...millions are wrongly disqualified because the income threshold is set below the Food Poverty Line - meaning even those in dire need are denied support,” Aliya Chikte, AIDC Economic Justice Project Officer. iol.co.za/news/2025-06-1…

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📌 Last week, we hosted a leadership school focused on building organisations. This training, primarily attended by young people, is part of our ongoing efforts to tackle unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Investing in youth leadership is key to a better future! ✊🏾 #Activism

📌 Last week, we hosted a leadership school focused on building organisations. This training, primarily attended by young people, is part of our ongoing efforts to tackle unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Investing in youth leadership is key to a better future! ✊🏾
#Activism
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📌 We are excited to share our 2024 Annual Report! Strengthening Resistance, Building Alternatives: AIDC’s Journey Towards Economic and Environmental Justice. ✊🏾 Read the full report linked below. ⤵️ aidc.org.za/2024-aidc-annu…

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UBIC partners have gathered for Day 1 of a strategic workshop hosted by Black Sash in Cape Town. The morning session has been marked by robust deliberations on the socio-economic landscape, critical reflections on the challenges facing income support in South Africa and

<a href="/UBIC_ZA/">UBIC</a>  partners have gathered for Day 1 of a strategic workshop hosted by Black Sash in Cape Town. 

The morning session has been marked by robust deliberations on the socio-economic landscape, critical reflections on the challenges facing income support in South Africa and
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📻 | The AIDC is concerned about the World Bank’s $1.5 billion loan to South Africa, arguing it prioritises private investors over public interests and economic sovereignty. Andile Zulu, AIDC Energy Democracy Program Officer, discusses the implications. Listen to the

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🌟 The wait is over! 🎉 #REFAFEST is back after a brief pause! Join us for a day of bold ideas and radical alternatives on 5 September at University of Johannesburg. Don't miss out! 🚀✨

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#TaxJusticeNow! Make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Tax justice is essential for redistributing wealth and funding public services and climate actions.

#TaxJusticeNow! Make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. Tax justice is essential for redistributing wealth and funding public services and climate actions.
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Tax Justice Now! ✊🏽 Make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. 📌Tax justice is essential for redistributing wealth and funding public services and climate actions. 💸Taxing excessive wealth and harmful industries is key to reparations and towards achieving climate

Tax Justice Now! ✊🏽 Make the rich and corporations pay their fair share. 

📌Tax justice is essential for redistributing wealth and funding public services and climate actions. 

💸Taxing excessive wealth and harmful industries is key to reparations and towards achieving climate
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✍️🏾ICYMI: Amidst the political debates on education and land reform, the GNU remains focused on structural reforms that risk deepening our reliance on costly private investment for public infrastructure, writes Andile Zulu. #EconomicPolicy #Privatisation

✍️🏾ICYMI: Amidst the political debates on education and land reform, the GNU remains focused on structural reforms that risk deepening our reliance on costly private investment for public infrastructure, writes <a href="/Shakas_Coconut/">Andile Zulu</a>.  
#EconomicPolicy
#Privatisation
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🚨 Spotlight on Resource Justice! 📰 Our Executive Director Farai Maguwu is quoted in this powerful feature article exposing the underbelly of Zimbabwe’s extractive industry. From environmental degradation to displaced communities, the piece calls for accountability and justice in

🚨 Spotlight on Resource Justice! 📰

Our Executive Director <a href="/FMaguwu/">Farai Maguwu</a> is quoted in this powerful feature article exposing the underbelly of Zimbabwe’s extractive industry. From environmental degradation to displaced communities, the piece calls for accountability and justice in
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AIDC Statement: Donald Trump’s trade wars signal that SA must break the chains of dependency and end the export-led growth path. Read our full statement linked below. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 aidc.org.za/trumps-trade-w…

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Social Development and SASSA are hiding behind semantics to dodge scrutiny over the punitive measures they are carrying out at the behest of National Treasury #SASSA #SASSACrisis 🧵

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The declaration of the newly convened South African Tax Justice Working Group, that the IEJ is a member of, has been published! The declaration calls for bold, progressive tax reform to tackle inequality and to fund public services. ow.ly/Y71o50Wp7L2

The declaration of the newly convened South African Tax Justice Working Group, that the IEJ is a member of, has been published! The declaration calls for bold, progressive tax reform to tackle inequality and to fund public services. ow.ly/Y71o50Wp7L2
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STATEMENT: The South African Tax Justice Working Group and allied organisations call on the South African Government to match its global commitments with bold domestic action to #TaxTheRich and stop tax abuse by multinational corporations. Read our full statement linked below. ⤵️

STATEMENT: The South African Tax Justice Working Group and allied organisations call on the South African Government to match its global commitments with bold domestic action to #TaxTheRich and stop tax abuse by multinational corporations. Read our full statement linked below. ⤵️