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Just over 74% of South Africa's electricity still comes from burning coal. In 2021, the country negotiated the Just Energy Transition Partnership with Germany, the UK, France, the US and the European ...

As illegal mining spreads through abandoned shafts in South Africa, Catholic religious women risk their lives to rescue girls coerced into sex and early marriages in communities the state struggles to ...

South Africa's government announced Friday that the country would increase its use of coal-fired energy, provoking outrage from climate groups. Africa's biggest polluter and most industrialised nation ...

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