[TOP STORY] Patrick Bond on Brics and SA’s challenges in global energy and trade

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‘Can South Africa survive having coal intensive energy production? Can we switch faster? If the answer is no, then we have another interesting dilemma,’ says the professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

5 Nov 2024 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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