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Trump interview on GB News was full of falsehoods about energy and climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment Bob Ward details the untruths from the US President that went unchallenged in an interview with Beverley Turner on 15 November, flouting Ofcom rules and further spreading climate misinformation.

Bob Ward details the untruths from the US President that went unchallenged in an interview with Beverley Turner on GB News, flouting Ofcom rules and further spreading climate misinformation.

The imaginary persecution of Afrikaners in South Africa: a brief explainer If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, or that there’s a radical Marxist called ...

If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, here’s a brief explainer about what's really going on. (TLDR: It's a hustle.) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

Yeoville Dinner Club’s Sanza Sandile brings pan-African cuisine to the States Founded by former radio broadcaster Sanza Sandile, Yeoville Dinner Club is a curated ‘breaking bread’-style dinner that blends storytelling with food. In August, Sandile’s Dinner Club was recreated in...

Good writing about good eating, making an effort to connect and grab some lingering joy. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

YouTube video by Nelson Mandela Foundation Building Economies for the Future: Business and Human Rights

Happening now: Business & Human Rights. "Justice is always an unfinished business" indeed. And it is messy and difficult. But always, always worth the struggle for achieving common good.
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Absolutely superb contemporary piece by Tom Eaton. Highly recommended read.
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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

Quote about inequality by Goran Therborn, pointing to the violation of human dignity, denail of possibility and its many side effects e.g. premature death, ill-health, exclusion, powerlessness and stress.

🎯Goran Therborn description of what inequality does to people 💯

South Africa: the world’s cheat sheet for what comes next “In a crisis, a country betrays how it feels about itself,” Jonny Steinberg wrote in his News24 column last week, suggesting that if this country’s current anxious entanglement with the Trump regime i...

"everything can change incredibly fast" some key things the world could learn now, from South Africa's recent history. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/south-afri...

61% of Everyone Who’s Starved to Death in Gaza Over the Past 22 Months Died in the Past Three Weeks Read that again.

"61% of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past 3 weeks." 💔💔 zeteo.com/p/61-of-ever...?

The shunning: Identity and belonging in a time of genocide in Gaza When the history books are written, the month of July 2025 is likely to go down as a turning point – a month when precisely engineered famine and the indiscriminate slaughter by tank- and rifle-fire o...

"By July 2025 ... it will be obvious to billions of human beings in the Global South that the scale of power achieved by the axis of Israel, the US and Western Europe is unparalleled in recorded history." 💔 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Spent two weeks in Armenia recently, finalising some research during the hot middle parts of the day and enjoying the freshest air and outstanding views in the early mornings and evenings. What a magnificent country filled with the loveliest people.

Sharing the 6th edition of my stakeholder map of the most influential and active stakeholders in South Africa's energy transition. | Brenda Martin Sharing the 6th edition of my stakeholder map of the most influential and active stakeholders in South Africa's energy transition. The map benefits from many inputs, tips and leads. Many thanks to al...

2025 update of SA Public sector stakeholder map published today www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...

The Climate Consultants The Climate Consultants is Open Secrets' latest hard-hitting report and uncovers how management consultants are cashing in on the climate crisis and steering South Africa’s climate response—with zero transparency and accountability. 

65% of Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) grant funds are going to private corporations—mostly international consultancies. Less than 25% goes to local NGOs, public entities, or universities without reaching communities on the ground.

https://www.opensecrets.org.za/the-climate-consultants/

Are we still human? On writing and humanism, and why history matters Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of genoc...

"If our politicians cannot be human, let us, at the very least, remain so. ... Educate yourself and others, create a culture in which each person is able to turn to their neighbours and recognise them, irrevocably, as fellow human beings." www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

For those interested in research relevant to the influential stakeholders operating within the South African energy transition (public sector) ecosystem.
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Such a vital point re. the value of optimal diversity & inclusion. Without it, we simply don't know what we miss out on. Low diversity = limited insight, experience, vision, perspective, possibility...

Roti and roses Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

"The key power of representation is that you not only look like someone who hasn’t been at the table, but that you in fact change the nature of which discussions are prioritized, and that you’re fighting for a different set of priorities that have been ignored." africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

Dirty Work: How Management Consultants are Shaping and Cashing in on the Climate Crisis YouTube video by Open Secrets TV

Watch live now. Recording available as well. www.youtube.com/live/8uKgDj7...

The Climate Consultants The Climate Consultants is Open Secrets' latest hard-hitting report and uncovers how management consultants are cashing in on the climate crisis and steering South Africa’s climate response—with zero ...

Published today. Open Secrets’ latest report The Climate Consultants uncovers how big consultancies are steering South Africa’s climate response.
www.opensecrets.org.za/the-climate-...

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

Our inequality is one of the most important factors that leads to the divisions between us.

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

"...wealth is not the marker of the comfort class. Security is." 💯. Points made in this insightful article are globally relevant to considerations of socio-economic inequality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Sudan Update: Daily Brief For more than two years now, a horrific conflict has been raging in #Sudan. In Human Rights Watch’s Daily Brief today, Andrew Stroehlein reminds readers what’s been happening:

I know everyone is overwhelmed with multiple crises around the world right now, but please take 3 minutes to remind yourself of what may be the worst of them all - but probably gets the least international attention: #Sudan.

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New documentary reminds us of the cost of Elon Musk’s tech ambitions In the broiling shadow of rocket flames and broadband dreams, the inconvenient truths of Elon Musk’s techno-utopia are being tidily shuffled out of frame.

"This is the paradox at the heart of the Musk myth. His obsession with space colonisation is sold as a response to climate collapse on Earth. Yet in pursuing that dream, he accelerates the very forces he claims to resist." 🎯 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson Poetry Unbound · Episode

A much needed universal call for justice that is 'clear eyed, collaborative and mighty' 💙
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The chapters in this book are derived from the Regional Africa Human Rights Academic Network Conference 2023, held from 13-15 September 2023 at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

Good. Late, but good.
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Thank you President Mahama - first African head of state I've seen speak up on this.