COMMENT If you’re a global mining giant, you want out of coal quick sticks for the simple reason that the major investment funds will no longer put their money into fossil fuels, especially coal. Global funds have announced that their collective $11-trillion under management will no longer fund investments that contribute to the climate catastrophe […]
Pope Francis this week exhorted the political leaders of Mauritius, known as a tax haven and enclave for shell companies, to promote policies that reduce income inequality and to reject “the temptation of an idolatrous economic model”, according to the National Catholic Reporter. In a visit to the country, the pontiff pointed to economic growth […]
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The treasury has mooted selling the utility’s coal-fired stations, but this doesn’t mean privatisation
The 700km route takes in the Namib-Naukluft’s Kuiseb canyon where two German geologists hid during World War II to avoid internment
Negative rates are seriously spooking markets. Money managers are used to getting a positive return on their investments
When the US president is not stoking the flames of white nationalism on Twitter, he is playing chicken in a trade war with the Chinese.
Eskom has the whole economy in a death spiral
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About 500 tonnes of sewage is trucked daily across Gauteng and disposed of on mielie fields instead of being used to make biogas