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Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa and Clean Technology Fund provide $25 million
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors on Monday 14 December 2020 approved $15 million from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) and $10 million from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to advance African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) II’s projects to boost low-carbon energy generation in sub-Saharan Africa. SEFA’s contribution will comprise a package […]
Rivers and Dams not substitution of beaches
After heavy rains, most of the rivers and dams are left with foreign objects deposited in the rivers and dams posing more danger than Covid-19 to community members who are using the facility to cool off. When President Ramaphosa announced the government’s decision to bar public access to beaches in the Eastern Cape between 16 […]
Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa and Clean Technology Fund to provide $25 million in funding
The African Development Bank’s board of directors on Monday 14 December 2020 approved $15 million from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa and $10 million from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to advance African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) II’s projects to boost low-carbon energy generation in sub-Saharan Africa. SEFA’s contribution will comprise a package of […]
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An analysis of Covid-19, governance & leadership by the Eastern Cape, ANC-led Government
The public health-care system in the Eastern Cape has been in dire conditions for decades, and as some commentators have pointed out, has finally collapsed under the strain of Covid19 infections. Nowhere has the failure of governance been unambiguous than in the Eastern Cape, where corruption, mismanagement, indifference, and sheer incompetence have ensured that the […]
Technology – Decades of Disruption
Howard Plaatjes, CEO of technology investment group, AYO, takes a look at some of the key technologies that are set to change our future, today and provides an insight into where South Africa’s largest listed ICT investment group is headed. It’s safe to say that the past 10 years of technology have been stratospheric in […]
Silencing of guns in Africa remains a pipe dream
The African Union set itself a goal of silencing guns on the continent by 2020 but has failed to achieve that goal dismally. Guns are still blazing in the DRC, CAR, Libya, S. Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria. Instead, there is potential of new wars coming on board in […]
INNOVATION
Church and the fourth industrial revolution
As a young boy who was raised in the Lutheran Church, one of the things I had to contend with was the determination of...
EDUCATION
Zionist Israel: 73 years of Apartheid occupation and oppression of Palestine
The global release of the B'Tselem Human Rights report that Israel is an Apartheid state hellbent on oppression, injustice and war crimes against Palestinians...
ECONOMICS
Money isn’t the most powerful motivator
Most companies have unique methods for motivating people. When it’s done right this delivers an energised workforce, inspires progress and pushes teams to excel....
