South Africa investment summit
Ep 65: JNU students protest in India, hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners and more..
We also look into the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails and the march by trade unions in South Africa against the 2nd annual Investment Summit in Johannesburg.
South African unions call government’s Investment Summit a bluff
Trade unions argue that the summit only raises false hopes of economic revival and demanded that the government, instead, take concrete steps like doubling the corporate tax, setting capital controls and increasing public and social expenditure
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