Solar energy adoption is booming in South Africa, but it’s mostly benefiting wealthier, white communities.
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A new book argues that South Africa should ‘start again’, but the reviewer says it doesn’t make a strong case.
Solutions driven by the private sector are only for those who can pay, and also end up driving public priorities.
The 2024 elections may be the tipping point that enables opposition parties to portray themselves as viable contenders in forming a national coalition government.
After 30 years of democracy, South Africa is in a deep electricity crisis which can only be solved if the government moves speedily to set up solar and wind plants.
As South Africa heads towards elections, there is no quick fix solution to the electricity crisis in the country. What exactly are the political parties promising voters?
The president’s speech couldn’t cover up for the fact that the last five years have been among the most difficult for ordinary South Africans.
A growing number of people are opting to generate their own renewable energy and escape load shedding.
Some work is already being done to enhance the tourism sector’s environmental sustainability.
‘Water-shifting’ should not be a permanent measure. It does not address the cause of the current crisis.
Any remedies to the South African power crisis initiated now – or under development – are not going to have a significant impact this year.
South Africa could end power blackouts if it implemented a plan to balance renewable energy capacity, time-of-use tariffs and ended the power utility’s monopoly.
The book shows how parts of South Africa now fester with organised crime.
Climate systems which drive anomalously cold weather will still cause cold extreme events into the 21st century.
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
The era of stocking pantries and keeping our fridges and freezers full is over.
A threshold has been crossed, with a pessimistic outlook becoming more dominant than an optimistic one.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
South Africa’s courts are likely to set a high bar in cases brought against the government’s most recent state of disaster declaration.
Very little attention has been paid to the justice implications of electricity distribution.
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