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On balance, considering the public costs and alleged public benefits, it is clear that the costs have been understated and the benefits overstated, in the public sphere where the developer, the City and the province clearly are aligned and have control over the dominant narrative, but more impo...

In separate seminars at a conference bringing together government and academia in Cape Town last week, a number of experts pointed to Minister Gwede Mantashe, politics and entrenched fossil fuel interests as hobbling South Africa’s energy transition.

South Africa will miss its binding 2030 carbon emissions targets under the Paris climate agreement, three senior government officials confirmed, as the country plans to run eight coal-fired power...

Officials say fossil fuels are needed for longer than planned to manage persistent power shortage

The ongoing protests by bus drivers and other workers tied to the IPTS in the Nelson Mandela Bay City government of Gqeberha is the latest instalment in the series of other labour unrests taking place under coalition local governments across SA.

Delayed by the power crisis and fights with the coal lobby, the government says the green plan will launch at the UN Climate Summit, After two years of turf wars, the governments implementation plan for its US$8.5 billion (R160bn) Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) will be made public at the UN COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai in November as a template for climate finance and phasing out fossil fuels in developing economies.

The metro has racked up the highest accumulated amount of unauthorised, fruitless, irregular and wasteful expenditure of any municipality since 1994.

An update on the training and community support programmes taking shape at Eskom’s pilot renewable energy plant

Jobs are already in short supply in Dipaleseng, near the Mpumalanga plant

Tax incentives and subsidies are being looked into to support the development of South Africa's green hydrogen industry.