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Busisipho Siyobi

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Busisipho Siyobi

Busisipho Siyobi is the lead researcher in the natural resource governance programme at Good Governance Africa.

Global disruption: A Navy destroyer in the US Central Command area of operations transits the Strait of Hormuz on April 11. Photo: US Central Command

Iran war a reset  moment for Africa

Closure of Strait of Hormuz can be used as a strategic opportunity to enhance regional cooperation in Africa without further complicating its already strained relationship with…

(File photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)

Critical minerals strategy crucial for clean energy

South Africa’s strategy for these minerals can support low-carbon economies, essential in tackling the climate crisis that worsens the vulnerability of people and the environment

The World Bank’s Mission 300 should focus on renewables as the extraction and burning of gas is expensive would damage the environment and people’s health. Photo: IGUA-SA

Unlocking regional potential: South Africa’s gas master plan and energy transition

The plan provides a chance to strengthen cooperation and competition in the Southern African Development Community

Eskom is inadvertently helping drive the global sustainable energy movement by rapidly pricing South Africans out of the grid energy market.  Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Bridging gaps in the Integrated Resource Plan

The disconnect between various renewable energy plans and different departments raises concerns for the success of IRP 2023

South Africa needs to change its top-down approach, consult communities and fast track the delayed Integrated Energy Plan

Localise the just energy transition for Africans

We should prioritise adopting practical and binding measures that reflect the realities and perceptions of people living on the continent

The promise of $300 billion by 2035 is not only insufficient; it’s a betrayal of the principles of climate justice. (Guillem Sartorio/Getty Images)

Boost private investment for renewables

Increasing global and national pressures for decarbonisation put added focus on Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s plans

Let the people judge: Activists march from Hanover Street in Cape Town to parliament demanding that the government respond to the climate crisis and their environmental rights are not trampled by multinational corporations’ gas and oil explorations. Photo: Jaco Marais/Gallo Images

Don’t ignore people in oil, gas surveys

It is evident that the country needs a reworked mining and environmental management regulation framework

Mining Weekly  reported in March this year that the trust paid the first R1  billion in benefits to more than 11 000 eligible families.
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The keys to solving the legacy issues in SA’s mining sector

The goal of ‘zero harm’ has seen progress but is yet to be fully realised

Opportunity: Zambian women break stones to sell along the road. The country’s copper could boost industrialisation. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Africa must reverse the mining resource curse

Its minerals could drive the just energy transition – if governments and investors get it right

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Soften the blow: The Sere wind farm near Vredendal in Western Cape. One of the main solutions to the lack of generation capacity is renewable energy sources for the national grid. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Juggling act needed to end power crisis

Energy reforms must be considered alongside Eskom’s debt, alternative energy sources and environmental and social requirements

Of the 248 municipalities that Eskom supplies, more than half had overdue accounts, totalling R58.5 billion by March last year, with the majority of debt due to Eskom concentrated in 10 municipalities. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Shedding load: No power to the people, yet

Despite history of dealing with electricity woes, failing state entity still seems unable to provide

Glencore rout puzzles analysts

OPINION| Glencore fessed up – but not in Africa

Big corporations can absorb fines as a cost of doing business but a more rigorous system needs to be put in place to combat corruption and bribery

Abuse: Miners move bags of cobalt at Congo Dongfang Mining’s Kasulo mine. Two-thirds of the world supply of cobalt is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where men, women and children work.

African countries must put their houses in order to attract mining investment

The African Mining Indaba will look at ways to boost investor confidence through a stable regulatory environment and mining policies aligned with environmental, social and…

Community empowerment: A performance group connected to the Extinction Rebellion group joins hundreds of other people protesting against Shell’s plan to conduct underwater seismic surveys along South Africa’s Wild coast coast, at Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

The business case for environment, social and governance criteria

ESG performance presents an opportunity for involving communities in the decision-making process and reducing costs that might emerge down the line from litigation and fines