OPINIONISTA 17 February 2025 Rethinking fiscal policy: Can SA break free from austerity to fight child malnutrition? By Dick Forslund 5 min 2
OPINIONISTA 7 June 2022 There is no U-turn – The public sector austerity negotiations and the ‘4.5%’ spin By Dick Forslund 3 min 1
OPINIONISTA 7 February 2022 The real reasons behind South Africa’s R11bn loan from the World Bank By Dick Forslund 5 min 3
OPINIONISTA 29 August 2021 Public sector ‘retrenchments’: It’s time for unions to take the austerity bull by the horns By Dick Forslund 5 min 5
OPINIONISTA 23 August 2021 Law and austerity: Constitutional Court hears unions’ appeal on public sector wage agreement By Dick Forslund 5 min 3
MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED 3 February 2021 The great wealth tax debate: How to fund a constitutional state By Dick Forslund 7 min 6
OPINIONISTA 24 June 2020 Borrowing from the IMF will only deepen South Africa’s crisis By Dick Forslund 0
Maverick Citizen: #BUDGET2020 OP-ED 26 February 2020 Saving Eskom and saving the public sector and its employees from austerity By Dick Forslund 6 min 0
OPINIONISTA 21 January 2020 SAA: Tito Mboweni’s R2bn game of financial chicken By Dick Forslund 4 min 0
OPINIONISTA 29 August 2019 The Government Employee Pension Fund, budget austerity and the Eskom debt crisis By Dick Forslund 5 min 0
OPINIONISTA 18 February 2019 Putting Eskom’s debt on the government balance sheet could lead to another credit downgrade and disastrous budget austerity By Dick Forslund 7 min 0
OP-ED 22 October 2018 There are alternatives to permanent economic depression By Dick Forslund 8 min 0