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Of the global trading system and we're 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. they'll lose their job if the coal was closed down, the coal mining stopped? we'd lose ourjob. and then, there's the politics. plenty of seniorfigures here are sceptical, to put it mildly, about the very idea of abandoning coal. you've been described as a coal fundamentalist, as a bit of a dinosaur, somebody wh...

The gangs run huge risks. it really is a brutal province for anybody who wants to expose the truth. a gangster kind of economy. yeah, definitely. life is cheap in this country. you can hire hit men for 10,000 rand — that's m00. so, the system is, ithink, rotten to the core. and dangerous? yeah, absolutely. but stolen coal is only part of a much bigger problem. spread across this province are a dozen coal—fired power plants. they look like ships that have run aground. we're now driving to one named tutuka. a huge plant. but today, it's barely functioning, brought to its knees by years of mi...

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. it's a lethal addiction. it's 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? it's very depressing. it's ...

We could transition very rapidly onto a renewable—dominant energy system. and speed is crucial because if south africa drags its feet on going green, its exports could soon be blacklisted by other countries. you know, i'm talking about the hard economic reality. if we don't decarbonise, we're going to be shut out of the global trading system and we're 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 their...

Coal miners and their unions worry — with good reason — about their own jobs vanishing here in south africa. many people will lose theirjob. they'll lose their job if the coal was closed down, the coal mining stopped? we'd lose ourjobs. and then, there's the politics. plenty of seniorfigures here are sceptical, to put it mildly, about the very idea of abandoning coal. you've been described as a coal fundamentalist, as a bit of a dinosaur, somebody who's obsessed with coal. yes, they call me all sorts of things. �*coal fundamentalist�* and �*fossil—fuel dinosaur�*. do you recognis...