by Mark Swilling | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Hi everyone, I am looking for a piece of land in Gauteng that could be developed as a socially mixed ecologically designed Ecovillage. I want to draw on my 20 year experience in the Lynedoch Ecovillage and work with others to do the same in Gauteng. Unlike before,...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
From Farah Miller: For all my friends, whether close or casual, just because. One of the longest posts I will ever write, and the most real too. Everyone will go through some hard times at some point. Life isn’t easy. Just something to think about. Did you know...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to Jabu Moleketi who posted this on a WhatsApp group, I was able to read out the piece below at the African Capital Cities Sustainability Forum today: Sanjay Thakrar, CEO at Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said : A cyclist is a disaster for...
by Mark Swilling | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog, Talks
On Monday 18 March I co-hosted this event at the Artscape in Cape Town with Professor Thuli Madonsela (formerly the Public Protector and now the Chair of Social Justice at Stellenbosch University). The plenary speakers included Dr Pali Lehohla (former...
by Mark Swilling | Mar 10, 2019 | Blog
This New York Times article is a brilliant piece of journalism, revealing in clear ways how the land struggle is moving into a new phase. Impatient with how long it is taking for government to implement President Ramaphosa’s land redistribution promise,...
by Mark Swilling | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog
Seasoned repeat participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos this year referred quite a few times to the fact that this year there was a sense of gloom, compared to the atmosphere of optimism in previous years. The Secretary-General of the UN summed up the...
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