B Martin
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Southern Africa: Just Transitions in energy, economics, equality and equity. Also: oceans, bees, fungi and Dogs.
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"It's tempting to hide in small rooms built from quick answers." - Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled life
"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...
South Africa delivered at the G20, Trump delivered a tantrum | Daily Maverick
<p>Trump may believe he can single-handedly rewrite the rules of geopolitics with threats and hashtags. But the G20 is bigger than him. The world is bigger than him. And South Africa’s leadership is a...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"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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As South African social media dons a regal purple in solidarity against gender-based violence, women are gearing up for a nationwide economic shutdown on November 21, demanding that the government recognize the crisis as a State of Disaster—because no economy can thrive while women's lives are ...
Women for Change calls for shutdown over GBV ahead of G20 Summit | Daily Maverick
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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.
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.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
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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...
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 ...
anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si8r...
Building Economies for the Future: Business and Human Rights
YouTube video by Nelson Mandela Foundation
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October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si8r...
Absolutely superb contemporary piece by Tom Eaton. Highly recommended read.
open.substack.com/pub/anotherd...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Absolutely superb contemporary piece by Tom Eaton. Highly recommended read.
open.substack.com/pub/anotherd...
open.substack.com/pub/anotherd...
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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
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
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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
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 💯
September 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🎯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...
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...
anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"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...?
61% of Everyone Who’s Starved to Death in Gaza Over the Past 22 Months Died in the Past Three Weeks
Read that again.
zeteo.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"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...
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...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
August 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"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.
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.
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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/
https://www.opensecrets.org.za/the-climate-consultants/
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.
www.opensecrets.org.za
July 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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/
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/...
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...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"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...
www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...
July 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
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...
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.
africasacountry.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"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-...
www.opensecrets.org.za/the-climate-...
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 ...
www.opensecrets.org.za
June 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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-...
www.opensecrets.org.za/the-climate-...
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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.
June 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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.
Maybe some people in the ANC are finding it difficult to defend. Perhaps because when we talk about BEE, we might mean other things, such as cadre deployment or corruption.
BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: Why we abandon BEE at our peril
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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...
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
www.theatlantic.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"...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...
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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...
www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
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:
www.hrw.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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...
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...
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.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"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...