Neil Coleman

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.

Days before the next SARB MPC decision on interest rates, we ask: Is our inflation-targeting regime stabilising the economy or holding back recovery? 🎙️Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh with Gina Schoeman Ackermann, Dr Roelof Botha & Dr Mzwanele Ntshwanti. Now streaming! youtu.be/yZjsXpCIOnw?si…

Israel is moving to seize the West Bank – & silence makes it easier for the occupation. I signed this petition to push leaders to freeze trade & sanction Israeli ministers pushing this illegal takeover. Add your name &help make this impossible to ignore. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/il…

Q: “Is South Africa sacrificing growth and jobs at the altar of inflation targeting?” A: Yes Q: “Can an economy trapped in economic stagnation, deindustrialisation, structurally high unemployment and deep inequality afford a monetary policy framework primarily designed around disinflation and investor credibility?” A: No, but the primary role of the SARB since around 2000 has been to maintain “financial system credibility”. If everything else burns down, that’s just too bad. As long as the finances are “sound”.

Raising interest rates will have no impact on these external shocks, & can only hurt households & businesses & worsen unemployment. This is the price we are expected to pay for meeting the inappropriate 3% inflation target. Read more here @IEJ_SA @_SMWX dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

The Monetary Policy Committee meets Thursday. Speculation is that instead of cutting interest rates, they will increase them to 'counter the impact' of price rises arising from global oil, food etc shocks following the Iran war. Follow the debate here 1/2 youtube.com/watch?v=yZjsXp…

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@AnythingLFC_ Highly unlikely. A more interesting possibility is that if we beat Brentford and Villa lose to City, LFC would squeak into 4th. But on current form LFC more likely to draw or lose and end up a feeble 5th 🤷‍♂️.

🚨 Liverpool might have to play in a PLAYOFF for Champions League football 🤯 If Bournemouth win 5–0 vs Forest & Liverpool lose 1–0 vs Brentford, they would be level on: • Points – 59 • Goal Difference – +9 • Goals Scored – 62 • Head-to-Head – 1 win each • H2H Away Goals – 2 each ➡️ Literally nothing separates them… playoff required 😳

🚨NEW EPISODE: Unpacking SA’s monetary policy with Dr Mzwanele Ntshwanti, Gina Schoeman and Dr Roelof Botha, in collab with @IEJ_SA. Ayeye!🔥

Interest rate decisions affect home loans, debt and vehicle repayments, disposable income, business costs, investment, and jobs. Ahead of the next @SAReserveBank MPC meeting, we ask: Is monetary policy suppressing growth without fixing inflation? Streaming soon!

@thiagoavilabr Heroes.

They are back!

Ahead of the next SARB Monetary Policy Committee meeting | Can high interest rates fix inflation driven by fuel prices & global shocks? With weak growth, mass unemployment, & renewed inflation pressures, we ask: Is SA’s monetary policy stabilising or constraining the economy?

@novaramedia @underthetrees2 Given Liverpool (the city's) history of solidarity with the anti apartheid movement & the people of Palestine, this is unbelievably disappointing, & painful to read, as an LFC fan since 1982. Fans worldwide & the people of Liverpool must put pressure on LFC to change course.

Liverpool FC is top of the table, but not of a league to be proud of. A 4-2 pasting at the hands of Aston Villa on Friday night affirmed the Reds’ mediocre season on the pitch. But, according to campaigners, Liverpool is number one in complicity in the Gaza genocide. War on Want have published a league table of Premier League clubs’ ties to Israeli actions in Palestine. Liverpool are ahead of north London rivals Arsenal and Spurs in joint second place. Man United and Man City are tied in third place while the fourth spot is shared by Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton and Fulham. The league table is part of a report entitled Red Card: English Premier League Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities Against the Palestinians. The report says at least 15 Premier League sponsors have connections to the military assault on Gaza, the construction of illegal settlements and the wider system of apartheid. Liverpool’s shirt sponsor, Standard Chartered, provided $15.4bn (£11.5bn) to 24 complicit businesses between January and August 2025. The Premier League itself is sponsored by Barclays bank, which the report says has provided billions to 49 complicit companies. Neil Sammonds, senior campaigner on Palestine at War on Want, said: “These clubs speak proudly about equality, inclusion and community. Yet behind the branding, some are using ‘sportswashing’ to sanitise corporations connected to some of the gravest crimes and humanitarian catastrophes of our time. “Palestinian footballers are being killed. Stadiums are turned into detention camps. Child players are buried beneath rubble. “The Premier League has shown before that it can act when sponsorship becomes morally toxic. The question is why Palestinian lives appear to count for less.”

Disciplining capital?

⚠️ [Statement] President Cyril Ramaphosa dismisses Minister Tolashe President Cyril Ramaphosa has in terms of section 91(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,1996, removed Minister Sisisi Tolashe from the position of Minister of Social Development. In the interim, President Ramaphosa has appointed Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Sindisiwe Chikunga as the acting minister in the portfolio pending a full-time appointment in due course. 🔗 zurl.co/EXzaf #GovZAUpdates

[🚨 STATEMENT] 🗣️🔊Failed fiscal policy worsens unemployment! SA’s Quarter 1 unemployment stats are out, and the numbers are shocking, but not surprising. 👇See our statement on why this is predictable when the State deprioritises development: 🔗 tinyurl.com/4fz8c3r8 🔗

Q1 2026 LABOUR FORCE SURVEY CONFIRMS A DEEPENING NATIONAL CATASTROPHE   The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes with grave concern the latest Quarter 1 2026 Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa. The figures expose an economy in deep structural crisis and a society being pushed towards desperation.   In the first three months of 2026 alone: • South Africa lost 345 000 jobs • unemployment increased by 301 000 people • the official unemployment rate rose from 31.4% to 32.7% • the expanded unemployment rate rose to 43.7% • youth unemployment climbed to approximately 45.8% • discouraged work seekers increased to nearly 4 million people. This means nearly one out of every two economically active South Africans is unemployed or has given up looking for work. These are not normal economic fluctuations. This is structural collapse. While small gains were recorded in manufacturing, mining and agriculture, they were overwhelmed by devastating losses elsewhere: • Community and social services lost 206 000 jobs • Construction lost 110 000 jobs • Transport lost 30 000 jobs • Private households lost 28 000 jobs.   At this pace thousands of households are being pushed deeper into poverty every single day. DEINDUSTRIALISATION IS DESTROYING SOUTH AFRICA SAFTU has consistently warned that South Africa cannot sustain employment growth while continuing down the path of deindustrialisation. Although manufacturing recorded a small quarterly increase, the broader trend remains deeply alarming. Recent Quarterly Employment Survey data showed manufacturing losing: • 61 000 jobs in Q4 2025 alone, • and approximately 127 000 jobs year-on-year.   Since 1994 South Africa has progressively weakened its productive industrial base. The country increasingly exports raw materials while importing finished goods that could and should be produced locally.   Entire industries have been weakened or destroyed: • textiles, • steel, • engineering, • metal fabrication, • agro-processing,  • and manufacturing value chains. Industrial towns continue to collapse while the economy becomes increasingly dependent on imports, debt, speculative finance and precarious informal activity.   THE FUEL PRICE CRISIS WILL WORSEN SUFFERING The latest fuel price increases will intensify the crisis facing both workers and the unemployed. Rising fuel costs immediately push up: • transport costs, • food prices, • logistics, • paraffin, • electricity, • and the general cost of survival. The poor suffer the most because every fuel increase affects taxi fares, bread prices and access to work opportunities. The current global geopolitical instability, including wars, sanctions, militaryescalation and energy market volatility, is now directly punishing the South African working class. SAFTU REITERATES DEMAND FOR A R1 500 BASIC INCOME GRANT The scale of unemployment now requires urgent intervention. SAFTU reiterates its demand for the immediate implementation of a permanent R1 500 Basic Income Grant for the unemployed and poor.The current SRD grant remains far below the poverty line and wholly inadequate for survival. SAFTU rejects the dishonest claim that South Africa cannot afford such a grant. The real question is political priorities. South Africa loses hundreds of billions annually through: • illicit financial flows, • corruption, • transfer pricing, • tax avoidance, • procurement corruption, • illicit trade, • and corporate tax reductions. SAFTU has consistently proposed that the grant can be funded through: • increasing corporate income tax, • a progressive wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaires, • a financial transactions tax, • recovering money lost through corruption and illicit financial flows, • and ending wasteful subsidies and incentives benefiting corporations and elites

Burnley after today's result against Villa, under new manager Michael Jackson 👇