When Mr Herman Mashaba writes its worthwhile reading his pieces, not because he is aspiring to be the Mayor of the City of Gold, but because he is the founder of Black Like Me. If you grew up in the townships and various predominately black neighbourhoods like I did, you will know of the hair [...]
Renewable energy is one of the most tangible ways of making a fundamental shift from our current climate trajectory. Weening off from fossil fuels for energy will decrease our dependence on these limited and climate altering resources and allow us to move towards creating a low-carbon generation. The African Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) was created [...]
Happy (our Policy & Research Coordinator) offers his take on the recent budget speech.
The Tyranny of Realism- to what extent is our present and future energy development constrained by the past? This is a question that our most recent report seeks to answer. "This volume seeks to prompt balanced discussion of a number of themes, but also presents a line of argument, that there is one decision that is unequivocally and urgently required: to prioritise the deployment of renewable energy technologies in the short term, immediately and ambitiously, and increase the share of renewable resources in the energy mix as rapidly and extensively as possible into the long term".