Private consulting firms see energy and climate consulting as the new frontier for profit-making.
Consultants and the climate con: management consultants are gobbling up scarce climate finance
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Sasol
Trade unions taking a stake in the capitalist economy
Only 23% of South Africa workers are currently members of trade unions.
It’s the coal, stupid
South AfrIca's coal-fuelled development path delivers jobs that are less than decent and results in massively negative externalities – water contamination, air pollution, loss of farmland and community commons and livelihoods. With theexception of Sasol, coal is still...
Political blunders and nationalization prospects
If the government was a person, it would be barely able to stand today, having shot itself in both feet over the past week. Timing the introduction of the controversial and bitterly resisted e-tolling system to start the day before a fuel price rise to record levels...