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Mankind craves gold. Its rarity makes it extremely valuable, and its everlasting luster symbolizes the Sun’s power and immortality. The archaeological

By decommissioning coal-fired power stations and rapidly expanding alternative power, SA could achieve greater security of supply: Daniel Mminele.

South Africa will need to attract investment of $14 billion (around R224 billion) if it is to develop a substantial green hydrogen industry, says Daniel Mminele, the head of the government’s climate finance task team



While hunters celebrate and conservationists mourn the killing of two of Botswana’s largest-tusked elephants, a biodiversity tragedy is waiting in the wings.

The power utility is an integral part of South Africa's transition to a low-carbon economy, explains Daniel Mminele, head of the Presidential Climate Finance Task Team.

South Africa aims to pursue a financing solution that embraces a “different paradigm” with regard to the allocation of risk, as well as return expectations and investment horizons, when negotiating the terms and conditions of a $8.5-billion climate finance offer made in November by several developed countries. A ‘Political Declaration on the Just Energy Transition in South Africa’, which incorporates the financing offer, was signed with the European Union, France, Germany...

Here’s how South Africa, Germany, and Canada face their most shameful chapters.

South Africa has much catching up to do when it comes to the development of a green hydrogen economy. But this week’s launch of the country’s hydrogen roadmap shows that in this regard, government and the private sector are very much in alignment, even if one wants to move faster than the o...

Answers to South Africa’s food system problems could lie in the pre-colonial epoch

A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of a momentous African civilisation