Author: Julie Bourdin
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“It’s the wild west”: Zombie mines multiply in SA’s opaque coal sector
African Arguments visited ten “active” coal mines around Ermelo in South Africa. Three were abandoned, and had been for years according to locals. This story was ... -
South Africa’s energy crisis is driving a “solar boom”, but there’s a downside
The privately-led quintupling of rooftop solar in 2 years takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening energy apartheid. At the tick of ...
