Democracy & Social Justice

Between 2007 and 2013, more than 6,000 pension funds in South Africa were cancelled in a process littered with errors and oversights.

With the support of the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group, the Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum is continuing their campaign for an increase of the old-age grant. .

President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Political Party Funding Bill into law. The signing of this Bill is a truly historic event in South Africa’s political history. When implemented it will drastically enhance the transparency, accountability and inclusiveness of our country’s political and electoral system.

Last week news broke that a Portuguese arms trader who helped the apartheid regime violate UN weapons sanctions has approached SA’s courts as part of his strategy to claim commission on the deal.

As the world launched fireworks to celebrate the arrival of 2019, there was no ‘happy new year’ in Zimbabwe.

This first volume, entitled ‘The Bankers’, focuses on the role of banks and other financial sector actors in corporate criminality.

Pietermaritzburg Pensioners travel by bus from Pietermaritzburg to Parliament in Cape Town to ask government to provide all pensioners with a bonus in December and to increase pensions to the level of a living wage.

The hope that was generated by the removal of Robert Mugabe from power in the November coup in Zimbabwe was always provisional and tainted by the persistence of Zanu PF’s legacy.

The EELC and EE made joint submissions to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on South Africa’s track record on the right to education.