Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 19, 2023 ~ Our tragic mantra: faster/worse than expected. "While observed warming has been close to climate model projections, the impacts have in many instances been faster and even more extreme than the models forecasted." thebulletin.org/2023/04/faster…

Last year former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter told us Eskom had looked at all these options. To restore Hendrina power station and run it for five years past its 2026 shutdown date would cost roughly R12-billion. “If you do the math, it doesn’t make sense." amabhungane.org/stories/the-co…

The state is broken, but we dare not abandon the state - amaBhungane amabhungane.org/comment/commen…

Not my area, but fascinated how payload costs to space are falling radically through disruptive innovation by SpaceX. Will lead to wider & more affordable applications of satellite coms & imagery, including environmental, resource, infrastructure, crime, etc management, & more….

In the LegalBrief today. groundup.org.za/article/chief-… by GroundUp

Those against the US$8.5 bn Just Energy Transition Investment argue that SA is being bribed into decarbonizing its power sector. It's happening anyway as coal power stations fail. Eskom Hld SOC Ltd's available coal plant capacity and emissions are already below IRP2019 levels for 2030.

The amaBhungane centre for investigative journalism has issued a “Selebi letter” to the police and NPA to forestall the arrests of two of its journalists and a managing partner over the publishing of the “Moti Files”. timeslive.co.za/news/south-afr…

Khaya Sithole @MarianneThamm He is one of the few that give me any hope.

Two South Africans shortlisted in Global Investigative Journalism Network 's Global Shining Light Award Viewfinder for 'Above the Law' and News24 🇿🇦 for the Babita Deokaran story. bit.ly/43cid1r

"Renewable energy power is prioritized for unlimited development on the basis of ensuring national defense and energy security and bringing about efficiency, high economic results, becoming a new economic sector of the country." Vietnam’s latest power plan via Tobias Bischof-Niemz

“I am not Morgan Freeman, and what you see is not real. What if I were to tell you that I'm not even a human being? Would you believe me?” The entire video and audio here is AI-generated. AI is becoming indistinguishable from reality.

Eusebius was a courageous journalist and commentator. RIP comrade ❤️

Karpower’s Maputo workaround also blocked zitamar.com/floating-power…

“[Boris] Johnson appointed his hairdresser to the Order of the British Empire”. Amid his list of cronies and crooks, there is at least one deserving recipient.

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's

Devastating news! He has been amaBhungane’s champion in many, many cases. It’s always such an education. 🐞

A sanctioned Russian oligarch, a multi-billion-rand manganese mine, and the impoverished communities in the Northern Cape that should’ve benefited from a lucrative deal.Masa Kekana investigates why it all went wrong. #CarteBlanche on Sundays at 7pm on M-Net channel 101

Oh my God, those journalists and South African celebrity . on a propaganda tour in Zimbabwe on a mission funded by Zunaid Moti are now wearing Mnangagwa’s scarfs🤣🤣🤣 This is very unethical for any journalist to do this, let alone to be on a trip funded by a well

Newsrooms are hiring newbies because companies refuse to pay decent wages. People with institutional knowledge and experience are just not paid when they freelance (if you haven't seen what happened to Niren, I suggest you do).

I try to stay off social media. But this needs to be heard loud and clear: Mondli Makhanya | Beasts of no nation news24.com/news24/southaf…