Professor Raymond Suttner speaks to Polity's Sashnee Moodley about the response to the current political crisis.
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By: Terence Creamer
Transitioning South Africa’s energy ecosystem from its current over-reliance on coal to one progressively based on the country’s natural advantages of abundant sun, wind and land will take decades. It is, thus, technically possible, and socially desirable to implement strategies that support workers and communities whose livelihoods are threatened by the shift. Given the long life of the assets involved, there is time and space to plan for the energy transition; time and space that was not available to policymakers an industry incumbents in other sectors that have experienced fundamental technological disruption, such as telecoms. →
