by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 30, 2010
By Dick Forslund and Mazibuko Jara20 September 2010At any rise in aggregate demand, the Bank increases interest rates.Last week, the Reserve Bank waded into the battles between workers and employers over wage demands. Its monetary policy statement expressed concern...
by Daniel Krähmer | Nov 12, 2010
By Grischelda HartmanSouth Africa has sophisticated gender machinery present in public life, and it has come to represent the social and political transformation. Clause 9 in the Bill of Rights guarantees equal rights for all, and ensure that no-one is discriminated...
by Daniel Krähmer | Dec 3, 2010
Glimpses of clear sunlight in a long winter only indicate that summer is possible, but are not summer itself (not even spring). The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) welcomes that the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) document recognizes the hard...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 16, 2011
The political economy of changePraise for Hein Marais’ latest book“An extraordinary achievement. This is, by a considerable margin, the best book yet on the political economy of South Africa. Marais combines an unrivalled knowledge of the literature with a prose style...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 27, 2011
Whenever the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system have developed into an overt crisis, the unevenness of capitalist development has acted as a sort of pressure-release mechanism. In our neoliberal times, the unevenness can be seen on many levels – from the...
