SOUTH AFRICA
Gauteng community health care workers blocked entrances to the Department of Health building in Tshwane to demand permanent employment. groundup.org.za/
Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe wants to ask unemployed people from surrounding villages whether mining should go ahead. businesslive.co.za/
Laws in South Africa take a long time to make and sometimes even longer to implement. It twill be at least three years before the Political Party Funding Act compels parties to be transparent about their funding. dailymaverick.co.za/
There are calls for a moratorium on the sugar tax because it is claimed, in its first year of implementation, it has been directly responsible for the loss of anything from 1,000 and up to 10,000 jobs. In reality, there is no firm evidence to support that claim – and the industry faces much greater challenges. dailymaverick.co.za/
Information Commissioners will gather in Johannesburg before key sessions at the UN General Assembly, where global leaders will assess progress on the right to information within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. South Africa will be reporting on the long way it has come from apartheid-era secrecy to constitutional democracy rooted in transparent government and the right to know. dailymaverick.co.za/
Corruption didn’t start and end with Zuma. Karl von Holdt in this SWOP paper argues that competing factions of black capitalists depend on it to drive the formation of their class. wwmp.org.za [pdf 579KB] |