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Don’t privatise electricity in South Africa

Transition: Workers carry out repairs at the Tutuka coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga. South Africa has said a retreat from fossil fuel must take account of the effect on the economy and the people who depend on it for a living. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

A new civil society campaign has provided a refreshing counter-narrative to the relentless private sector propaganda, which seeks to profit from South Africa’s energy crisis and the transition to renewable energy that could cost more than R1-trillion over the next decade.

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Duma Gqubule

Duma Gqubule is a financial journalist, analyst, researcher and adviser on issues of economic development and transformation

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