Expropriation and mafias spook green investors
South Africa is facing various headwinds in its efforts to attract greater foreign investment for renewables projects…
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Coal’s slow death in Mpumalanga
As the province’s coal sector contracts, jobs evaporate and transition support stalls, municipalities like Steve Tshwete are bleeding revenue…
Win for energy transparency in murky solar battle
A judge has ordered the department of mineral and petroleum resources to release the full record of its decision to award renewables contracts to…
Climate groups lambaste Teke’s plea for coal funding
With banks under pressure not to lend to coal producers, a lobby group is asking for a rethink. Civil society groups are having none…
The people who own the sun
The SalTuba Cooperative is a flagship example of socially-owned renewable energy, and a model for energy democracy…
Playing Europe’s green power drive
The JSE’s second listing this year, Greencoat Renewables, offers an entry point to Europe’s €1.5-trillion renewables market…
Protecting small business from Eskom’s chokehold
A new plan from Discovery will see the company wheeling electricity to small businesses…
Sasol makes short work of South Africa’s carbon pledges
Sasol seems to have fudged both its tax contribution and jobs claims as it pushes back against National Treasury’s carbon tax plans…
Chasing Ramokgopa’s R60bn nuclear unicorn
South Africa’s nuclear ambitions are back with a bang. But the odds of new nuclear assets going online any time soon are slim…
Elliott makes a mint as Big Oil wrestles with identity crisis
Critics who argued the commitment of energy giants to renewables was greenwashing will feel vindicated by their haste in pivoting back to oil…
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Why South Africa is so vulnerable to the Iran war
The Iranian oil shock is reversing South Africa’s modest recovery,…
Mark Mobius: The man who sold the world
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Africa has turned the screw on its gold miners. Just ask Gold Fields
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Iran-US ceasefire in question
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