South Africa

Counter Punch
View In: South AfricaThroughout its 71-year history in South Africa, the World Bank financed episodes of high-carbon, anti-social mega-project maldevelopment.[1] The financing included not only apartheid-era loans that exacerbated parastatal energy supplier Eskom’s official racist policies from 1951-67 and neoliberal polic...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: South AfricaOn July 25, in a televised address to the people of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a sweeping plan to overhaul the country’s dysfunctional electricity sector. The plan includes widespread liberalization of energy generation, efforts to help Eskom — the ailing state-owned energy utilit...