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Or is the rot here simply too deep . Its very depressing. Its very concerning. Our country is in a serious dark place. Stage 4 Load Shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice. It says that stage 6 will be implemented at 8pm tonight until 5am. How did it come to this . South africa, the continents great economic powerhouse, is in deep trouble. Long daily power cuts injohannesburg and across the country. Dawn, and the Traffic Lights are still not working. This is alexandra towns...

a serious dark place. stage 4 load shedding will continue to be implemented until further notice. it says that stage 6 will be implemented at 8pm tonight until 5am. how did it come to this? south africa, the continents great economic powerhouse, is in deep trouble. long daily power cuts injohannesburg and across the country. dawn, and the traffic lights are still not working. this is alexandra township, a poor neighbourhood on the edge ofjohannesburg. every day here, the power goes out...

and i started gasping for air. a mixture of cyanide and sodium arsenite. today, south africa still gets almost all its power from burning coal. its a lethal addiction. its killing us. this coal is killing us. the answer, to many, is a green revolution. but can western money and pressure help south africa embrace renewable energy? or is the rot here simply too deep? its very depressing. its very concerning. our country is in a serious dark place. stage 4 load shedding will continue to b...

and massive corruption, criminal gangs ready to kill anyone who tries to stop the looting. i was shaking badly. i was literally lying like this and i started gasping for air. a mixture of cyanide and sodium arsenite. today, south africa still gets almost all its power from burning coal. its a lethal addiction. its killing us. this coal is killing us. the answer, to many, is a green revolution. but can western money and pressure help south africa embrace renewable energy? or is the rot ...

youre going to have to close down. yes. the power crisis is the result of decades of mismanagement and massive corruption, criminal gangs ready to kill anyone who tries to stop the looting. i was shaking badly. i was literally lying like this and i started gasping for air. a mixture of cyanide and sodium arsenite. today, south africa still gets almost all its power from burning coal. its a lethal addiction. its killing us. this coal is killing us. the answer, to many, is a green revolu...

After 20, 25 years. youre going to have to close down. yes. the power crisis is the result of decades of mismanagement and massive corruption, criminal gangs ready to kill anyone who tries to stop the looting. i was shaking badly. i was literally lying like this and i started gasping for air. a mixture of cyanide and sodium arsenite. today, south africa still gets almost all its power from burning coal. its a lethal addiction. its killing us. this coal is killing us. the answer, to many, is a gr...

But the just energy transition faces obstacles — lots of them. coal miners and their unions worry — with good reason — about their own jobs vanishing here in south africa. many people will lose theirjob. theyll lose their job if the coal was closed down, the coal mining stopped? wed lose ourjob. and then, theres the politics. plenty of seniorfigures here are sceptical, to put it mildly, about the very idea of abandoning coal. youve been described as a coal fundamentalist, as a bit of a din...

You know, im talking about the hard economic reality. if we dont decarbonise, were going to be shut out of the global trading system and were going to lose massive amounts of jobs. but the just energy transition faces obstacles — lots of them. coal miners and their unions worry — with good reason — about their own jobs vanishing here in south africa. many people will lose theirjob. theyll lose their job if the coal was closed down, the coal mining stopped? wed lose ourjob. and then, theres...

Do you think they will? they must. they must cancel the coal because it is killing us. this coal is killing us. these local campaigners say the government is putting jobs before health and ignoring court orders to enforce pollution standards. its... sobs for me, i cant even explain the feeling inside. and its been long talking about this but it doesnt come up into terms where i can swallow it. its painful. so, nothing changes? nothing changes. but change might be coming.

Yeah. im just going to go around the corner here — is that 0k? were told there are at least 60 so—called black sites in this region where coal is stolen or traded illegally. whats extraordinary is quite how brazen it is. its happening every day out in the open, in daylight. even at night, we hear gunshots. gunshots. even they are fighting amongst themselves. the different gangs? yes. we need to be careful, then. yes. because theres so much money at stake... yes. ..that they will kill for it....