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The ruling African National Congress (ANC) did what most people suspected at its recent National General Council (NGC) meeting, and endorsed a Parliamentary investigation into the feasibility of setting up a statutory Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT). However the resolution that was passed by the NGC softened many of the more extreme positions taken by some ANC members in the recent past.
The dust had hardly settled on the NGC meeting, when South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary...
Watch part two of this interview here.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaks to the acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef, who won the Right Livelihood Award (the alternative Nobel Prize) in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.
Max-Neef explains how he came to understand and conceptualize what barefoot economics is.
MANFRED MAX-NEEF: It's a metaphor, but a metaphor that originated in a concrete experience. I worked...
