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TRACEY DAVIES: Look to yourselves, retailers
A large number of South African employees who gamble do this in the hope that it may enable them to afford basic items such as food at the end of the month — which shows how inequality harms the country
TRACEY DAVIES: Weak laws and empty words
The DFFE’s crowing about this toothless declaration is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of people in South Africa’s air pollution hotspots.
TRACEY DAVIES: Sasol guns for air pollution laws — again
The chemicals and energy giant continues to push back against laws that regulate air quality
TRACEY DAVIES: The clean coal myth
Arguments that the dirtiest of fossil fuels can be transformed into something clean and sustainable only betray the coal industry’s desperation
TRACEY DAVIES: Triple whammy for taxpayers
Long-suffering South Africans are paying three times over when incompetent officials’ actions or policies are overturned in court
TRACEY DAVIES: Climate irony
With a generous dose of chutzpah, Toyota’s insurer is suing for flood damage that its own business practices and Toyota’s vehicles likely made worse
TRACEY DAVIES: Why green NGOs make some see red
The South African oil and gas lobby happily endorses the Trumpian view that environmental NGOs hinder growth and energy security
TRACEY DAVIES: Big polluters win again
The latest carbon tax debacle shows that the public has no way of monitoring corporate influence on government policymaking
TRACEY DAVIES: More hot air as Eskom dodges emissions bullet
The economic impact of granting Eskom exemption from air quality standards is ignored, just as the human impact is dismissed
TRACEY DAVIES: The medical aid broker system is broken
As premiums rocket, medical aid schemes seem to be paying a lot of money to ‘ghost’ advisers — unknown and invisible to people they are supposed to be helping




















