The Just Energy Transition Investment Plan for the five years 2023 to 2027 will need $98 billion (R1.7 trillion), if South Africa is to achieve its decarbonisation commitments by 2050, president Cyril Ramaphosa said. Ramaphosa was speaking at the Climate…
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Decreased support for the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa’s elections on 29 May was expected. But a decline from 57% to 40% marked a turning point in the country’s democracy. It also confirmed the general decline in popularity of former…
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Liberal think tank the Free Market Foundation has called for the Government of National Unity (GNU) to be smaller than the outgoing government, in its recently launched policy charter. Called Liberty First: A policy agenda for South Africa’s 2024-2029 parliamentary…
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Senegal joined the club of oil-producing countries on Tuesday as Australian group Woodside Energy announced that production had started in the West African country’s first offshore project. While Senegal’s fossil fuel output is not expected to be as high as…
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Zimbabwe’s electricity deficit has been linked to widespread deforestation as illegal loggers are increasingly cutting down trees to produce charcoal, which is sold in major cities such as Bulawayo and Harare. Desperate to earn a living, locals like 42-year-old Loveness…
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The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party said on Monday it had instructed its lawyers to ask the constitutional court for an urgent interdict to prohibit parliament from proceeding with the swearing in of new MPs and the election of the president…
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Mother of four Laiwa Musenza is already reliant on aid from a local NGO to feed her family and Zimbabwe’s drought is only getting deeper. At a farm on the outskirts of the capital Harare, a queue of children, some…
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The ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) will on Thursday decide which party or parties it will form a post-election coalition with. This follows the first round of talks about talks between it and other political parties. The party at this…
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Ratings agency Fitch has warned that a decision by the ANC to get into bed with either Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party or the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) could jeopardise macroeconomic stability. As political parties weigh their coalition options…
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Lawyers for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party founder Jabulani Khumalo, who has since been expelled from the organisation, alleged on Monday that a forged letter had been sent to the South African Electoral Commission (IEC) claiming Jacob Zuma was its leader.…
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The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has issued a warning against what it called orchestrated efforts to undermine the outcome of Wednesday’s general elections. Chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo told journalists on Tuesday evening that law enforcement agencies had…
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On the eve of the national and provincial elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill into law. Ramaphosa assented to the bill, which has been before him for his signature for several months, on Monday…
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