Hosted in collaboration with TrustAfrica in Dakar, Senegal from 2 to 4 September 2019, the Challenging Orthodoxies in Economic Thinking in Africa convening brought together African academics, scholars and activists to engage, as part of an ongoing process, on new…
The purpose of the Budget Justice Coalition is to collaboratively build people's understanding of, and participation in South Africa's planning and budget processes
This factsheet highlights the impacts of austerity on human rights in South Africa's deeply unequal context. It was produced in partnership with SECTION27 and CESR.
This letter follows the right to health fact sheet which highlights the effects of austerity budgets by government during the 5th democratic administration and how they have severely undermined the public health system and the viability of National Health Insurance (NHI).
This factsheet examines the enjoyment of economic and social rights in South Africa, ahead of the country's first appearance before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in October 2018.
The Budget Justice Coalition's submission to the Select and Standing Committees on Appropriations shows that austerity budgeting has led to expenditure cuts and allocations which pit the realisation of different rights against each other.
This presentation was made to the Select and Standing Committees on Finance during the public hearing following the 2019 Budget speech
A five-year review of budget policies and outcomes made as a Budget Justice Coalition submission to the Select and Standing Committees on Finance.
In October 2018 South Africa appeared before the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
