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Offshore oil and gas development in South Africa is governed, among others, by the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998, as amended in 2022, and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act.
BIODIVERSITY

Mozambique: Gas is not part of Africa’s solution to climate change

The effects of offshore gas projects contribute to a humanitarian crisis, and mainly only the companies and countries of the north benefit from the profits and commodities

  • Chris Engelbrecht
  • Rehana Dada
5 min read
Soldiers patrol in front of a burned truck carrying the inscription “Shabaab Chinja” referring to the jihadist group in Mocimboa da Praia. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP)
AFUNGI PENINSULA

Faltering insurgency in Mozambique still threatens lives – and gas projects

Instability around crucial projects leaves them stalled, while Frelimo’s inability to accept its leadership failures is preventing long-term solutions to the conflict

  • Luis Nhachote, The Continent
4 min read
ALIKO DANGOTE

Petro states: What happens when 30% of your national budget disappears in a decade?

As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their…

  • Sipho Kings
4 min read
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AMIN NASSER

Oil boom may be the industry’s last hurrah

Biggest players in the game show signs of recovery but a low-carbon future may threaten fossil fuel

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Majorie Jobson, a commissioner, at Khulumani support group, holds case files for victims of Apartheid in their offices on April 13, 2010, in central Johannesburg, South Africa. Khulumani is involved among other things in a lawsuit against Daimler AG, with complaints brought forward by victims of Apartheid. The plaintiffs argue that Daimler sold vehicles to the old South African government, and they were used by the police and security forces to keep up the Apartheid regime. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
AHMED TIMOL

Apartheid criminals still at large

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

  • Ilham Rawoot
9 min read
Two ambulances leave from Tham Luang cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai
ENGEN

Reparations row dogs petrol giant

The push by Wentworth residents for Engen to give them a stake in the company has prompted it to take them to court to halt their protests

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
CAPE TOWN

State firms flex muscle in Africa oil boom

Africa’s state-owned oil firms are taking a bigger role in the rush to tap the continent’s energy resources and threatening to upstage the Western majors who have dominated…

  • Paul Simao
3 min read
BUDAPEST

Oil prices stay above $82 a barrel

Oil prices kept rising on Thursday after reaching record highs in the previous session on United States refinery outages and declines in US oil inventories. A decline earlier in…

  • Pablo Gorondi
2 min read