Statements

“Accordingly, we have decided to keep money in the pockets of South Africans.“ – Minister Enoch Godongwana This is an ideologically driven budget, which assumes that the way out of the country’s economic and social crisis is through creating the … Read More

Preceding the hard lockdown, millions of South Africans were living below the food poverty level. The hard lockdown resulted in a surge in reported cases of hunger. It is currently estimated that more than 15 million South Africans go to … Read More

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has presented a terrible three-year budget plan. The impact of the Mid Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) will no doubt be ‘more Julys’, more powder-keg explosions that tear the society apart and more taxpayer money spent … Read More

Tired of empty promises. Tired of empty pots.  TO: Minister of Finance  FROM: Cry of the Xcluded with SAMWU Cape Metro, Assembly of the Unemployed and the Fight Inequality Alliance DATE: 11 November 2021 MEMORADUM: Now that the local government … Read More

This memo was delivered to the SABC in the Free State on 11 November 2021: Memorandum: SABC must stop pandering to elite and serve the public good We are the Cry of The Xcluded – the majority of people in … Read More

Cry of the Xcluded: Pre-MTBPS 2021 statement, 9 November 2021 Now that the local government elections have come and gone, we await to hear the announcement of the upcoming medium-term budget policy statement.  As we had said going into the … Read More

Issued by Cry of the Xcluded, 2 November 2021 The 2021 Local Government Election results send a clear message to the country’s ruling elite: South Africa’s Xcluded have lost confidence in the electoral system.  This comes as no surprise after … Read More