Southern Africa

Immediately cancel Mozambique and Southern Africa’s debt!

6 February 2022 - by CADTM

The CADTM stands in solidarity with the victims of the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Ana. Indeed, the storm brought winds, heavy rains, damage and destruction to parts of Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, affecting several (...)
China’s role in amplifying Southern Africa’s extreme uneven development

30 June 2021 - by Patrick Bond

Like so many regions of the world, the 14 ‘Southern African Development Community’ countries are grappling with the complex problem of Chinese state and corporate involvement in divergent societies, politics, economies and ecologies. There is (...)
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across

2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond

On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...)
Southern Africa losing US$30 billion annually in trade-related illicit outflows, external government debt payments

2 September 2019 - by Sunit Bagree, ACTSA

According to a new report, The Money Drain: How Trade Misinvoicing and Unjust Debt Undermine Economic and Social Rights in Southern Africa, launched today by ACTSA on the eve of the SADC Summit in Dar es Salaam, rich countries may be accused of (...)