PRAVIN GORDHAN found a sneaky way to avoid raising VAT and it isn't healthy. Promoted as a health tax, the sugar tax quickly snowballed into an all-out tax on anything sweet, including dividends. The problem with the finance minister's health clai...
Category: Basic Income
Land ownership, is it so desirable?
PRIOR to 1994 “black persons” did not possess the vote. The majority were relegated to so-called independent homelands, most did not own land as such, and if they did, were largely dispossessed in one way or another by a labour system, which imposed a hut tax, drafted labourers onto the mines, an...
Timebanking creating next wave alternative economy
It took a global economic collapse for timebanking to emerge as the next wave of the alternative economy. While readers may already be familier with the concept of a local energy trading system or LETS, and South Africa already has a well-established complimentary currency in the form of the Tal...
Abahlali, opposing the Slums Act
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has passed legislation[1] affecting the lives and rights of shack dwellers. The shack-dweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, has challenged this law and will take their case to the Constitutional Court. But after a provincial judge ruled against the movem...
Medialternatives decides to RSS via Google and Adsense
SINCE we are still battling to get any credit for the 34000 pages we have served to the community, Medialternatives has had to syndicate via Google Syndication for gratis, in return for the prospect that t he company will allow us to join the Adsense programme. WordPress does not offer its own pr...
Economic Depression – the power of a metaphor
Are we not losing the plot, the meta-narrative in which a story of market folly is allowed to amplify itself via the Internet in an interconnected world, thus driving more foreclosures, as investors lose confidence in the system? How much of what we see, is the result of computer technology, vir...