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The two most prominent openly pro-corporate politicians active in South Africa since the early 2010s - Trevor Manuel and Cyril Ramaphosa - teamed up in 2009-12, during Jacob Zuma’s presidency, to produce a National Development Plan (NDP). They were supported by a...
SOUTH AFRICA’S ENERGY CRISIS IS set to proceed as usual, with Eskom’s recent announcement of another round of high-intensity stage four load shedding due to the exhaustion of its diesel budget. At the same time, the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference...
In his State of the Nation address of 26 June 2014, President Zuma called for "a radical transformation of the energy sector, to develop a sustainable energy mix that comprises coal, solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear energy ". Not content with building Medupi and...
The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro, at the International Society for Ecological Economics meetings, the Cupulo dos Povos alternative people’s summit, and the UN’s Rio+20 Earth Summit. Proponents and critics of ‘green growth’...
Promise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 1: Before That 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little spice to his dreary life, but no, it just can’t last. Born in March 1946 alongside his evil twin, IMF, in Savannah Georgia, after...