Questions over transparency in renewable energy land deals
Local entrepreneur Anthony Olifant: ‘Our community is relatively short of land. When renewable energy plants come in, land is immediately...
Africa
UPDATED: Francesca Albanese: The world is watching its conscience collapse
Francesca Albanese stood before more than 3 500 people at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday evening and...
‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese is not in South Africa to make anyone feel comfortable. The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian...
Carlos Amato: Drawing the madness of our times
Carlos Amato’s career as a cartoonist began, as he puts it, with a “lucky pitch”. After a decade in the...
The new energy rush: commodity giants bet on critical minerals, not ESG hype
It was all cigars for Zimbabwe’s lithium exporters for the first six months of this year following a reported 30%...
Toward a United States of the Horn of Africa
Nineteen ninety-one was the year the Cold War came to an end. In that same year, two major events took...
Heat and humidity is a lethal mix for SA’s small birds
High humidity significantly worsens the threat of lethal hyperthermia in small birds during extreme heat events, new research has found....
Kenya Airways operates Africa’s first intra-African flight using 50% sustainable aviation fuel
Kenya Airways has operated Africa’s first intra-African flight using 50% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) attributes under a mass balance system,...
Cele: I would have avoided the Marikana massacre
Former police minister Bheki Cele has criticised former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega over her handling of the Marikana mine...
ANC, DA in ugly war over ‘nonsense’ BEE bill
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is facing a backlash over its plan to table a bill scrapping the country’s broad-based black...
