Category: South Africa
Autopsy reveals the British-South African corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance
An obituary for the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’
The African country with by far the most advanced infrastructure and largest energy supply increasingly appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in its economic, ecological and electricity systems
An open, frank public discussion about the IMF’s regrettable history and current agenda is sorely needed
Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the Bank. At the time, it was an entirely valid, realistic goal of the 50 Years is Enough! Campaign and especially the World Bank Bonds Boycott. Kim’s co-edited Dying for Growth (2000) book-length analysis Read more…
Now that a $170 billion foreign debt cliff looms
These sorts of Western+BRICS modes of super-exploitation exemplify the mineral, oil and gas looting underway across Africa
South Africa has just witnessed two major economic events which spoke volumes about the prospects for global and local capitalism
Celina della Croce: South Africa’s Shack Dwellers’ Movement Is Fighting BackMovement leader S’bu Zikode says that after years of broken promises, shack dwellers are left with no choice but to fight for dignity and land
Mike Peters: The mind of the oppressedExploring the legacy of Steve Biko, a radical who spent his life fighting for Black liberation and for the overthrow of the Apartheid government in South Africa