Neil Coleman
@NeilColemanSA
Institute for Economic Justice🇿🇦 Co-Founder, Senior Policy Specialist. Former unionist. Politics~Economics🌍 Progressive alternatives✊ Music🎼
Good people. Don't let the climate deniers, the exploiters, the oligarchs, the wreckers of people & planet 👉demoralise you 👉defeat you Goodness, solidarity, decency, can prevail. But only if we refuse to despair. Resist! For the sake of humanity & our children.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the 1985 State of Emergency, when thousands -including children- were thrown into apartheid dungeons. A 🧵: Today, 40 years ago, hundreds of activists travelling back from the funeral of the assassinated Cradock four, were forced off buses by…
📢 Strong statement today by President @CyrilRamaphosa on the genocide in Gaza. We now need to intensify our pressure on Israel, and impose comprehensive sanctions, including the banning of coal and other critical exports that are bolstering the Israeli regime.
📢 Everyone should try to watch the incredibly powerful evidence of Dr Ahmed. Happening now. youtube.com/live/BfZXQK01t…
"There is an attack on the past, present and future of Palestinians. Our past – our homes, our universities, our mosques and our churches are being destroyed. Our present – our aid workers, doctors and engineers. Our future, our children, are being destroyed and dismembered." —…
Thousands of SASSA beneficiaries have had their grants abruptly stopped without warning, explanation, or time to appeal. The so-called “verification review process” is causing more confusion and chaos than clarity. @OfficialSASSA ⬇️ #SASSAMediaBriefing #SASSACrisis
"It gives me a great pleasure and privilege to address the media and social grant beneficiaries in the middle of an important social grant review process that SASSA is undertaking"- Themba Matlou, SASSA CEO @The_DSD @nda_rsa #SASSAMediaBriefing
We call on @OfficialSASSA and @The_DSD to: • Immediately reinstate suspended grants while reviews are pending • Publicly clarify the review criteria • Ensure all affected have access to appeal, assistance & answers #SASSAMediaBriefing #SASSACrisis
They've been slammed for halting grant payments without notice to hundreds of thousands of seniors, caregivers and people with disabilities. Instead of acknowledging the suffering of communities, their response is that payments are not “suspended” but “momentarily delayed”.
@The_DSD and @OfficialSASSA are hiding behind semantics to dodge scrutiny over the punitive measures they are carrying out at the behest of @TreasuryRSA #SASSA #SASSACrisis 🧵
BREAKING: President Ramaphosa says he has decided to put Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on special leave while investigations into alleged corruption and abuse of power continue. This takes effect immediately. Professor Firoz Cachalia will be acting Minister from August.
ARTICLE | IEJ’s Kelle Howson, Labour and Social Security Senior Researcher, says SA must shift from restrictive targeting to inclusive systems. •9 in 10 eligible SRD applicants excluded •Digital system fails poorest communities Full article: ow.ly/G6L550WlqsW