by Mark Swilling | Oct 27, 2019 | Blog
Speaking today (23 October 2019) at the Civil Society Conference on Defeating State Capture and Rebuilding the State hosted by Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and PARI. I’ve been asked to sum up at the end on ‘Mapping the way forward for civil society – charter...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
I was on a TV panel this morning with Hilary Joffee and Azar Jamime interviewed by Karima Brown about ‘lowest cost option for South Africa’s future energy mix’ – the focus of my Daily Maverick article a few days ago that seems to have hit a...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
Brilliant article that confirms my own reservations about the standard feminist explanation for why us men rape, kill and beat women, ie it’s because of patriarchy. It’s far more complex and sinister than that. Yes, of course it is patriarchy; but misogyny (hatred of...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
Every woman knows a man who abused her and every woman knows a woman who was abused. But no man knows a man who abused a woman. What does that tell us? That men are too ashamed to admit to other men what they have done.
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
It’s been quite a week. Started off last Friday with 2 talks at the Reframing Economics conference at Wits – one on the green transition and the other on non-equilibrium Economics. On Tuesday i did a keynote at Africa Powerweek in Sandton on investment trends in...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
(This is the version that was online on 23 September 2019 – the next day an edited version appeared.) The President has just sent this message to the UN Secretary General – the clearest commitment ever made to the South African energy transition. I’m blown...
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