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/ 16 October 2024

MG Environment Newsletter Intro

The United Nations climate change conference (COP29) kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week to bleak warnings from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Its report noted that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record and the period 2015 to 2024 will be the warmest 10 years on record, it said. The […]

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/ 26 October 2022

MG MORNINGS INTRO – SUBSCRIBERS

Welcome to the end of another week … and another day closer to 29 May. This weekend we’re celebrating freedom’s 30th birthday. That might sound facetious but we assure you that we’re sincere. It’s easy to drown in the corporate platitudes of “30 years of democracy”. But freedom is something we all understand. Freedom is […]

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/ 14 October 2000

SA’s fiscal crunch and our confidence crisis

Nowadays it seems as if all we talk about are various overlapping crises. There is the climate crisis, the unemployment crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, the fiscal crisis. At the beginning of this year, the World Economic Forum declared that we are on the brink of a “polycrisis”, a term coined in the 1990s but which […]