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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MEDIA STATEMENT

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21st March 2017 MINING ACTIVISTS REMEMBER SLAIN ACTIVIST BAZOOKA RADEBE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY. Communities from mining-affected areas used human rights day by commemorating the death of mining activist Bazooka Radebe at his home village in the Eastern Cape. Radebe was killed...

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'Growing inequality threatens to pull our societies apart'

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Fallists went head-to-head with National Treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile at the Mail & Guardian’s Critical Thinking Forum on Increasing Inclusive Economic Development In South Africa, held at the University of the Witwatersrand on the last day of February. This comes in light...

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Groups peddling land bill panic

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BY RONALD WESSO PARLIAMENT recently passed the Expropriation Bill, which now only needs the signature of President Jacob Zuma to become law. Does this mean there will soon be big changes in the way land reform takes place in SA?...

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Oxfam and the argument around inequality

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International advocacy group Oxfam this week produced a report on global inequality to coincide with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, triggering a backlash from a variety of free market think-tanks and professional commentators worldwide. Oxfam’s major claim...

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Scholarship, policy and the practice of economics in South Africa - A desperate need for transformation

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By SIMAMKELE DLAKAVU & AYABONGA CAWE A ‘business as usual‘ approach to both scholarship and policy in South Africa is perpetuating gross inequality. Conservative economic policy has privileged the maintenance of the status quo in the economy, the realm of...

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Rural South Africa is on a Precipice

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Protest against mining in Xolobeni. Photo courtesy of Dick Forslund By Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Sithandiwe Yeni 21 April 2016 The murder of Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, a leading opponent of titanium mining in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, marks a crisis that has...

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Five women activists doing important work to end gender violence

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The Daily Vox highlights five prolific women who are working to ensure that addressing violence against women remains a priority throughout the year. Our very own Kwezilomso Mbadazayo makes the list. As the women’s rights and gender justice programmes manager for Oxfam...

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Women must live their freedom

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Siphokazi Mthathi calls for women to live their freedom in an op-ed piece for News24. Here's an excerpt below: During these 16 Days of Activism for no Violence Against Women and Children, we reclaim the empowering narratives of young black...

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Oxfam South Africa condemns attacks on Queer and Feminist activists by male members of the Fallist Movement!

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The incidents of the 4th April at Wits University and the violence meted out to a group of Queer Feminists; by known male leaders of the Fallist movement is deeply disappointing. According to the queer feminists who were attacked, the...

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Invest in Africa’s women farmers

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BY SIPHO MTHATHI CLIMATE change is happening: Scientists say it is, environmentalists agree and, most important, women farmers report the truth of it. Oxfam is very clear that climate change is the biggest threat to global hunger and that it...

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Opinion: Journey Towards an African Taxation Renaissance

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By Sipho Mthathi JOHANNESBURG, Jun 12 2015 (IPS) - Africa is known as the ‘paradox of plenty’. How can a continent so rich in natural resources be so poor? Economic growth is predicted to increase by 4.5 percent across the continent...

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