The Assembly of the Unemployed (AoU) calls on the South African government to urgently invest in job-creating alternatives in order to address the unemployment crisis that has a chokehold on the country. According to Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force … Read More
As the Cry of the Xcluded, a movement of the millions of forgotten and forsaken people, we are outraged at Finance Minister Godongwana and his government’s proposed 2023/4 Budget. How can this government be so callous as to propose a … Read More
The Cry of the Xcluded urges the South African government to increase the budget for fighting against natural disasters as the country is grappling with a catastrophic climate crisis. This week three people lost their lives following heavy rains and … Read More
Today, 7 February 2023, two days before the State of the Nation Address, the Cry of the Xcluded will launch the Year of Mass Action campaign outside SABC offices in Auckland Park, Johannesburg from 10 AM. The launch will be … Read More
“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