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Zimbabwe’s Climate Adaptation Water and Energy Programme offers lessons on combining resilient water infrastructure, renewable energy and community-led development—but its impact claims require clearer evidence and attribution.
ENERGY

How Zimbabwe’s CAWEP programme is building climate resilience through water and energy

Zimbabwe’s Climate Adaptation Water and Energy Programme offers lessons on combining resilient water infrastructure, renewable energy and community-led development—but its impact…

  • Pali Lehohla
5 min read
Cultural heritage and traditional knowledge can help South Africa build a fairer, climate-resilient economy. This article examines why heritage should be integrated into the country’s just transition and protected from climate and development pressures.
HERITAGE CONSERVATION

Heritage and just transition – Affirming the role of traditional knowledge systems

Cultural heritage and traditional knowledge can help South Africa build a fairer, climate-resilient economy. This article examines why heritage should be integrated into the…

  • Blessing Manale
4 min read
Lyra Energy has secured a Norad-backed payment guarantee aimed at reducing customer-payment risk and attracting private capital for renewable-energy projects in South Africa.
LYRA ENERGY

Lyra Energy secures Norwegian backed guarantee to scale renewable power trading in South Africa

Lyra Energy has secured a Norwegian state backed payment guarantee designed to reduce payment risk and help mobilise private capital for renewable energy generation in South…

  • Ashley Lechman
4 min read
South African energy executive Niroshma Chetty has been appointed Managing Director of Generation Australia at ENGIE, where she will oversee thermal, rehabilitation, renewable hydrogen and other energy assets.
ENGIE

South African energy executive Niroshma Chetty appointed to lead ENGIE Australia generation portfolio

South African energy executive Niroshma Chetty has been appointed Managing Director of Generation Australia at ENGIE, where she will oversee thermal, rehabilitation, renewable…

  • Ashley Lechman
4 min read
South African businesses face a critical challenge: as reliance on a single energy grid proved risky, will water continuity become the next essential focus for industrial operations? Discover how on-site water treatment plants are transforming resilience strategies.
WATER

From solar to water: why on-site plants are the next big industrial resilience shift

South African businesses face a critical challenge: as reliance on a single energy grid proved risky, will water continuity become the next essential focus for industrial…

  • Robert Erasmus
4 min read
Focus Park, a shopping centre in Rybnik, Poland, is among the shopping centres owned by NEPI Rockcastle in central and eastern Europe. Picture: Supplied
REIT

NEPI Rockcastle reports 3.5% rise in interim earnings, driven by energy growth and European expansion

NEPI Rockcastle has reported a 3.5% increase in interim distributable earnings.

  • Tawanda Karombo
3 min read
Outside an earlier court case regarding #CancelCoal case.
COAL

South Africa’s new-coal plans may be dead, but the legal fight isn’t

Government challenges coal ruling in appeal court today

  • Vivian Warby
4 min read