South Africa’s energy transition faces a structural crisis beyond policy coordination

South Africa’s energy transition faces a structural crisis beyond policy coordination

Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz and Dr Jessika Bohlmann write in these pages that the central question facing South Africa’s energy transition is not whether the country is moving fast enough, but whether it is moving together. It is an elegant reframing, and on the importance of timing, sequencing and community trust, they are right. But the argument contains a silent assumption that requires scrutiny before it can responsibly guide policy — the a…