In the South African renewable energy sector, we cannot allow so-called disadvantages and government lassitude to hold us back. We need people to challenge the status quo by disrupting it.

Zero Carbon Charge is a start-up that is going places. Which places? All nine provinces of South Africa. And then, pretty much the whole of Africa, because its goal is the Electrification of Mobility in Africa. Which means the democratization and localization of energy generation across the continent.

I recently read a piece by Steven Pinker – author of Enlightenment Now – in which he describes an enlightened person as someone who has replaced faith, dogma, and folklore as a proper way to find the truth*. The 21st century is supposed to be an enlightened era, so it frustrates me when I read…

I didn’t plan to become a librarian. I wanted to be a writer. On my first day at University, I selected English and History as my majors – between those two you have all the tools you need to write stories. I thought. To fill up my course I chose Library Science. Working at an…

Earth Day was first celebrated on 22 April 1970. I only became aware of Earth Day in 1990 when, by chance, I watched a celebrity-laden American television special creating awareness about the state of Mother Earth, who was played by Bette Midler. It was all a bit, how shall I put it? Silly. At that…