#PowerTracker - Oxpeckers

Community trusts are greening the future

Community trusts linked to renewable energy projects are designed to ensure profits benefit the locals. #PowerTracker visits a Free State project to witness their real-world impacts...

17 March, 2025

Limpopo rare earths project aims to clean up

A rare earths venture at the gateway to the Kruger National Park plans to rehabilitate environmental damage caused by at least six decades of mining. Marcia Moyana investigates...

12 February, 2025

Free State’s helium gamble: A new energy frontier?

The province is home to SA's biggest gas and helium project. Will it speed up the shift towards renewable energy sources, or hinder progress? Refilwe Mochoari investigates...

10 December, 2024

#PowerTracker to monitor renewables across SA

Our pioneering project gears up to track the JET journey beyond the country’s energy capital. Andiswa Matikinca and Roxanne Joseph report...

25 September, 2024

Stuck between lithium rocks and a hard place

Zimbabwean communities living around lithium mines have to put up with noise pollution, gas emissions, dust, flying-rock hazards and ground vibrations. Oscar Nkala investigates...

20 September, 2024

Financing municipal progress for Mpumalanga’s energy transition

Municipalities in SA’s energy heartland face significant financial problems to implement the JET. Thabo Molelekwa spoke to stakeholders trying to overcome the hurdles...

12 September, 2024

‘We want a say in transition mining’ – DRC communities

Communities living on and working land in the DRC say they are not informed about mining permits for energy transition minerals. Jonas Kiriko speaks to them...

02 August, 2024