Economie

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• Kenya : Teacher unions and civil society unite to condemn the privatisation and commercialisation of education
  11 mars 2016, par Education International

  Education International has joined its affiliates and partners in Kenya to urge the government to halt the growth of edu-businesses throughout the country’s education sector.
  Article 53 of Kenya’s Constitution makes it clear that every child has the immediate right to free and compulsory basic education. However, a 2009 Policy for Alternative Provision of Basic Education and Training (APBET), which recognises alternative or ‘non formal’ schools, has inadvertently opened the door to big (...)

• Angola : Africa Needs Change
  4 mars 2015

  Five thousand kilometres away from the Angolan capital of Luanda, Malta is the registered address of a company whose ultimate owner is Sodiam, a subsidiary of Angola’s state-owned diamond company, Endiama. It is a common set up for many foreign companies, which set up subsidiaries in Malta to also make use of the attractive tax rebate on foreign revenue, giving 85% of taxable income back to shareholders. But behind the set-up of Sodiam’s Maltese subsidiary, Victoria Holding, is its other (...)

• Angola : Keeping it in the family
  20 mai 2015

  Angola has the third largest economy in Africa, with a GDP of $121bn in 2013. According to the auditors Ernst and Young, it was the world’s fastest growing economy from 2000-10. Yet it was still classed as a "Low Human Development" country, coming 149/187 in the UN’s Human Development Index for 2014. Angola’s wealth and power have stayed in the hands of a very few families. The Angolan elite lives in a world almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the country’s population of 20 million. (...)

• South African Inequality
  23 février 2016

  In 2014 it was found that two men (Johan Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer) owned the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50% of the South African population.
  Oxfam says South Africa is deeply unequal with the rich getting richer and the poor poorer. Its report says in 1993, as apartheid was coming to an end, the richest 10% of the population had a combined annual income of $36 billion. By 2011 this has grown to $69 billion. In comparison the poorest 10% earned a combined income of $1 billion. (...)

• Au delà de la Coupe du monde, l’Afrique du Sud en
  2 juillet 2010, par Léo Zeilig

  Aux récentes images de Sud-Africain-e-s en liesse à l’approche de la Coupe du monde auraient dû succéder celles de Sud-Africain-e-s construisant des barricades, alors qu’une nouvelle vague de manifestations et de grèves balaie le pays. Dans des scènes évoquant l’apartheid, la police affronte des manifestant-e-s et à des ouvrier-e-s en grève, tirant à coup de lacrymogènes, de balles en caoutchouc et de munitions réelles.
  Cette vague de mobilisations arrive un an seulement après l’élection, en avril 2009, (...)

• Afrique du sud : Rich Facts
  22 mai 2015

  More than 2000 South Africans have wealth of $10 million and more, according to research released on Wednesday. A higher percentage of these people are based in Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub situated in the Gauteng Province, the richest province in the country.
  Financial services according to the report, is the main source of affluence for 20 percent of local millionaires. The other main sources of wealth include real estate and construction at 16 percent, basic materials at 14 (...)

• Afrique du Sud : Condamnés à vivre à perpétuité dans les cabanes
  13 octobre 2010, par Nsibande Zodwa , Zikode S’bu

  Dans le KwaZulu-Natal, une des zones les plus pauvres d’Afrique du sud, un mouvement populaire se développe, dont les manifestations indisposent de plus en plus l’Etat et l’ANC. Engagé dans la lutte pour les revendications et la défense des besoins vitaux les plus élémentaires des populations, le mouvement Abahlali Basemjondolo subit les répressions et les procès, mais reste ferme dans sa dénonciation et dans les manifestations contre une Afrique du Sud à deux vitesses, où les pauvres sont ignorés et (...)

• Afrique du sud : Too Late for Many
  22 juin 2015

  When Oupa Sonopi started working in the mine at the age of 25, he was never informed of the high risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). "Although we would hear about colleagues in the mines being treated for TB, I was not aware that the environment we worked under could be a huge contributor to me getting TB. We were not informed when we were recruited," he says. According to Sonopi, most of his colleagues who work at the gold mines in Carletonville, a small gold-mining town 86 kilometres (...)

• Profiting from Poverty in South Africa
  11 septembre 2016, par Christopher Webb

  At a rally during the recent local government elections in South Africa, the Secretary General of the African National Congress told a crowd that the party was ‘relieving men’ who couldn’t take care of their children by providing their families with child support grants. The ANC, he told them, was the only party that raised their children because fathers were failing to do so. Currently the state provides families and primary caregivers with R350 per child, per month provided that household (...)

• South Africa - It could have been different
  15 janvier 2016

  Julius Malema, leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, challenged Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid legacy. Malema accused Mandela of “turning against himself” in abandoning elements of the Freedom Charter during the democratic transition in the early 1990s. The charter was drawn up by a coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s and is still viewed as the blueprint for an equal, non-racial and democratic society. Mandela, he noted, was hosted by a rich white (...)

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