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In February 2021, the US was hit by a massive winter storm. Texas, unused to extreme cold weather and which had undergone decades of deregulation, was overwhelmed and its electricity grid collapsed. Millions were left without power in dangerously cold temperatures, dozens of people died and consumers were left with exorbitant bills.
In February 2021, the US was hit by a massive winter storm. Texas, unused to extreme cold weather and which had undergone decades of deregulation, was overwhelmed and its electricity grid collapsed. Millions were left without power in dangerously cold temperatures, dozens of people died and con...
A recent radio programme demonstrated how people can recognise and learn from the past, yet remain blind to the much more pressing present. Under discussion was the new name for the Port Elizabeth Airport and its significance for South Africa in 2021. An historian from the University of Cape Town explained who the renamed Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport was named after: he was a Khoi leader who joined forces with the Xhosa people in opposing colonial expansion on the 18 th-century eastern border of the Cape. We were further informed that the apartheid government’s policy of divid...
Resistance Books, the Alternative Information and Development Centre, and the International Institute for Research and Education. For a free copy, click the cover image. Click to download free pdf or ebook. by Jonathan Neale I have spent the last year working on a book called Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. Most of it is about both the politics and the engineering of any possible transition that can avert catastrophic climate breakdown. One thing I had to think about long and hard was lithium and car batteries. I often hear people say that we can’t cover the world...
A six-year-old family member developed the “why did the chicken cross the road” into his own riddle: “How does a cow do maths? By using a cowculator.” Inspired by him, how would we answer this particular riddle: what connection is there between Jacob Zuma’s recent announcement of his defiance of the Constitutional Court, the ANC secretary-general’s defence of the former president of South Africa, Julius Malema having tea with Zuma, the Progressive Business Forum requiring the vaccine rollout to be a business opportunity for black business and… what the current Employment Equity ...