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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
Sasol’s locally concentrated value chain shows how industrial investment can support regional economies—but also raises difficult questions about dividends, reinvestment, ownership and South Africa’s long-term energy transition.
SASOL

Sasol’s value chain raises questions about who benefits from South Africa’s resources

Sasol’s locally concentrated value chain shows how industrial investment can support regional economies—but also raises difficult questions about dividends, reinvestment,…

  • Dr Pali Lehohla
6 min read
Fourteen years after the Marikana killings, Dr Pali Lehohla links the tragedy to Coalbrook, migrant labour, mining inequality and the unresolved promise of post-apartheid transformation.
PALI

From Coalbrook to Marikana: the human cost of South Africa’s extractive economy

Fourteen years after the Marikana killings, Dr Pali Lehohla links the tragedy to Coalbrook, migrant labour, mining inequality and the unresolved promise of post-apartheid…

  • Dr Pali Lehohla
8 min read