From gold to gas: reclaiming South Africa’s resource advantage
South Africa’s reluctance to embrace its mining sector as an engine for growth is both absurd and financially self-destructive…
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More than rhetoric, Africa needs to mobilise its banks, leverage its minerals with more discipline, and design financing that inspires trust…
The people who own the sun
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What Africa needs from banks to achieve its energy transition
Successful energy finance requires alignment between commercial and developmental objectives; it must support industrial growth, economic resilience and climate goals. Banks that do this…
Greenwashing, dubious deals and secrecy: the dark underbelly of South Africa’s oil sector
South Africa’s just energy transition is at risk of being torpedoed by murky deals and a flawed energy plan being driven by mineral and…
Darkest before the dawn
Let’s talk about coal, the fuel that’s both loved and loathed, one of the backbones of our economy and the bane of our environment.…
South Africa’s ‘just energy transition’ postponed – not abandoned
Whisper it quietly, but South Africa has now kept the demon of load-shedding at bay for nearly five months. It has, however, come at…
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