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Former glory shattered: Residents attend a community meeting in Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, where the economic fallout of Mpumalanga’s contracting coal sector is increasingly visible. Once one of the country’s top-performing municipalities, it is now struggling with falling rates payments, growing arrears and rising indigent support applications as retrenchments increase. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
COAL MINE CLOSURES
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Coal’s slow death in Mpumalanga

As jobs disappear from the coal belt, Middelburg’s economy is buckling. Unpaid rates, collapsing businesses and stalled transition support are deepening the crisis

  • Marcia Moyana
  • Thabo Molelekwa
8 min read
The promise of $300 billion by 2035 is not only insufficient; it’s a betrayal of the principles of climate justice. (Guillem Sartorio/Getty Images)
CLIMATE CHANGE

Renewable energy sector doesn’t provide long-term job security

Most jobs are for the installation period only, and are therefore temporary

  • Karabo Mokgonyana
5 min read
Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa at the Windaba Conference in Cape Town. (Photo: X)
BATTERY STORAGE PROJECTS

Ramokgopa outlines plans to ‘de-risk’ energy generation

The minister said that accelerating renewable energy is the country’s path to energy sovereignty and fighting climate change

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Preparing the workforce for a just energy transition requires a fundamental rethink of how education and training are approached. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Getty Images
CALLIB CASSIM

Renewables bidders out in the cold

Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe again blames grid insufficiency, but the electricity minister warns the country will rue delay on expansion

  • Mandisa Makgakga
  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read