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1 April 2021

Pandemic payday for SA executives

This article was first published in the Financial Mail on 1 April 2021.

A year ago, as the spectre of Covid loomed large, there were encouraging signs of solidarity across the country. In his March 30 2020 address to the nation, President Cyril Ramaphosa referred to “the 58-million SA citizens and residents who are standing together as one in confronting this national health... continued

30 March 2021

Finance the future you want

This article was first published in INCE|Connect on 30 March 2021.

Pausing to think about what the state of the world might be in 20 years, can leave one feeling understandably overwhelmed. The alarming reality of the unabated carbon emissions that are accelerating our climate emergency, the existential impacts we are having on our natural world, the likelihood of future pandemics, and... continued

23 March 2021

Climate Action 100+ benchmark exposes holes in Sasol’s climate ambition claims

• Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, yesterday issued its first “net zero company benchmark” of the world’s biggest corporate emitters, including Sasol and Eskom.
• The benchmark shows unequivocally that, despite years of promises and commitments, the world’s largest carbon emitters are... continued

21 March 2021

‘Greenwashing’ and the great ESG spin cycle

This article was first published in the Financial Mail on 18 March 2021.

Ethical or responsible investing is often considered to have emerged from the 1980s campaigns for divestment from corporations operating in apartheid SA. However, the concept has much older, and strongly religious, origins.

In biblical times, the Jewish concept of tzedek (justice and equity) —... continued