Truly an excellent piece. Revealing, by the way, that it took a non-lawyer to call this out properly.

Its an unashamed election ploy - whenever is a Bill signed at a Media Briefing? Will the Minister of Finance be there to tell the nation how it will be funded?

just want to give a shoutout to my dad who has run the fourth team at the local cricket club for something like 15 years.

before today, they’d lost 22 games in a row and consist of, usually, a 75 year old wicket keeper, two 60 year olds, couple of fifty year olds, a handful of

Good climate news this week
1 Wind+solar fastest-growing electricity sources in history
2 Renewables pass 30% of world electricity supply
3 Cleantech manufacturing investment up 70%
4 Vermont 1st to charge Big Oil for climate damage
5 UK's climate action plan unlawful, High

Was interviewed on AJ Arabic, earlier. They had to delay and interrupt the interview as they had to flight the breaking news on the horrors unfolding in Gaza. The translator was narrating the footage to me. The pain in his voice! How much more will world leaders tolerate?.

Yes, that's the modus operandi. Sow doubt, tell the lie over and over again..Then months later, issue a pseudo-admission, when people have moved on and nobody cares about the truth anymore. Shameful. Shameless.

In case one forgets, it is worth re-reading this excellent work and analysis by Meridian Economics explaining how, together with the normal proper plant maintenance that should go without saying, a relatively small amount of wind, solar PV and storage, can make a massive

PRESS RELEASE: South Africa submits an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of previous provisional measures indicated by the #ICJ in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel tinyurl.com/3bphwf3p

South Africa has returned to the ICJ to seek an urgent order for the protection of Palestinian people in Gaza from grave and irreparable violations of their rights under the Genocide Convention, as a result of Israel’s ongoing military assault on Rafah. shorturl.at/asALQ

NO VOTES:
Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, USA

ABSTENTIONS:
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Fiji, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Netherlands, North Micronesia,

This is how each country voted:

Very important piece. A must read.

'Let them eat t-shirts'- African National Congress . SMDH.

South Africa now has NO LAW limiting donations to political parties, and NO REPORTING THRESHOLD.

The Electoral Matters Amendment Act commenced today.

s 29(g) and (h) remove the limits, and we wait for the President to pass Regulations establishing new limits. Parliament must

CISL and Wits School of Governance join forces to support the launch of South Africa’s Industrial Policy and Strategy Review | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-and-…

More than three-quarters of climate scientists surveyed by the Guardian think warming will reach at least 2.5C

Only 6% think we'll stay below 1.5C

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Minister Ebrahim Patel has today released the Industrial Policy and Strategy Review at the Tshwane Automotive Special Economic Zone. The review looks back at measures and actions of the government in the last 5 years under the Reimagined Strategy.

Had the privilege of interviewing ⁦the dtic⁩ Minister, Ebrahim Patel, last night about his freshly-minted Industrial Policy. Hosted by ⁦Wits School of Gov⁩ in partnership with ⁦Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership⁩. Green industrialization is core to a sustainable future.

Speaks for itself.

I enjoyed Richard Calland's state capture play The Brothers, Number one and a Weekend Special. The characters resembled Mac Mac Maharaj, Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley, Ranjeni Munsamy, Phumzile van Damme (sterling performance), and Bell Pottinger's rogues.