"South Africa’s G20 year... proved that leadership can come from unexpected places, and that consensus, not coercion, can still drive meaningful global outcomes." 💯 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/sout...

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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...

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

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si8r...

Absolutely superb contemporary piece by Tom Eaton. Highly recommended read. open.substack.com/pub/anotherd...

Thread 🧵 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

🎯Goran Therborn description of what inequality does to people 💯

"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 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...?

"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.

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/

"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. www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...

"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...

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.

"...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...

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. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

"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...

A much needed universal call for justice that is 'clear eyed, collaborative and mighty' 💙 open.spotify.com/episode/3H8j...

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.

Good. Late, but good. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Thank you President Mahama - first African head of state I've seen speak up on this.

Sometimes I forget I can do what I want And then I remember - with a slap, a sigh, or sudden sweetness, I don’t owe anything or anyone the version of me I outgrew. - Yrsa Daley-Ward 💙

May 25, 2025

"A feminist decolonial and intersectional approach to Africa’s climate future in a multipolar world requires us to dream and act beyond the confines of patriarchal and exploitative systems." - Chido Nyaruwatha 💯 rpublc.com/vol9-no2/afr...

Cupcake beats orange, every day, in every way ⭐🏆💚

📺 There's a serious problem of misrepresentation of what the Expropriation Act is for punted in wider disinformation spread by white supremacists, which tries to legitimise US President Donald Trump's refugee status for white Afrikaners. Watch the interview here. abcnews.go.com/US/video/tru...

Watch the trailer for Mathonga Elizwe here, and we'll see you later! 🌱 file:///Users/admin/Downloads/mathonga_elizwe_early_teaser_v2%20(240p).mp4

🎯 sisonkemsimang.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️

“We, too, are so dazzled by power and money that we forget the fragility of our existence: we forget that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is fenced in, that outside the fence are the lords of death, and not far away the train is waiting.”🎯

A #photoessay from #Richtersveld #southafrica #quivertree #treealoe #climatecrisis #ClimateAction @coveringclimatenow.org #the89percent #conservation #desertification @antonharber.bsky.social @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social #storyark #storyarkdiaries #journalism news.mongabay.com/2025/04/phot...

Armed conflicts, wherever they occur, cost lives and destroy communities and even whole cultures. But they also have two very tangible effects on the climate crisis: they cost money and emit huge emissions... 💔💯 mg.co.za/thought-lead...

On 27 April 2025, South Africa celebrates 31 years of democracy. As we do so, we remember that achieving democracy did not come without the solidarity of peace, justice, and freedom loving friends and activists around the world. www.givengain.com/event/robben...

“For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.” - H L Mencken

let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice

"Perhaps true faith lies in the courage to see the holy in the collective breath of humanity — boundless, uncontained and achingly alive." - Chrispin Phiri (spokesperson for the South African ministry of international relations) 💙

"...the lies that states have told themselves and their citizens, those lies necessary to maintaining the pretence of being the good guys, are being exposed as self-serving myths whose sell-by dates have expired." 🎯

Pastel-colored apparitions of tenderness, magnolias are titans of resilience. I had no idea... ⭐💡 www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/m...

If like me, your work generally starts with strong stakeholder maps, these are points that guide me. I'd love to hear about yours! #energysky justtransition.org.za/stakeholder-...

⭐🔥💚name her: mother earth. "Not a bottom line, not a footnote" www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6K...

To better understand why certain US congressmen are targeting SA, follow the money