World Day of Social Justice was celebrated on 20 February 2021, and this year’s theme was “A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy”.
“World Day of Social Justice 2021 who cares?” read the title to an article by Mark Heywood in
Maverick Citizen. Indeed, who cares and why should anybody care?
Perhaps the question should be put differently: Why should we care about social justice in South Africa? After all, the concept of justice has been discussed throughout different times and locations using primarily political-philosophy lenses, approaches that often do not speak to each other. Before you misconstrue my opening remarks, let me confess that I care about social justice. In the words of Marian Wright Edelman, “The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”
Kumarsingh: Retrenchments not ‘par for the course’
Kishan Kumarsingh. File Photo
PANELISTS at the launch of the National Gas Company TT (NGC) agreed that energy companies in TT are gradually shifting toward a green economy, depending on cleaner and more sustainable forms of energy for the nation.
But Kishan Kumarsingh head of the Multilateral Agreements Unit at the Ministry of Planning said while answering questions at the launch of NGC’s Sustainable Development Goals Report, the retrenchments being seen as a result of companies’ shift to cleaner energy should not be par for the course.
“This (shift) was not happenstance. This was anticipated years ago when the climate issue came up,” Kumarsingh said. “Retrenchment should not be par for the course. As we transition to green business we have to ensure that opportunities are there.”