#PowerTracker - Oxpeckers

When wind turns deadly

Eastern Cape is home to SA's largest wind farm and has potential for more wind energy development – but at a cost to its Cape vulture population. Andiswa Matikinca investigates...

17 March, 2026

Connected, but still in the dark

Thabo Molelekwa investigates how prepaid electricity meters – now common in many municipalities — are encouraging a new form of energy poverty...

02 March, 2026

Uncharted waters: Inside the political battle for control of the Orange Basin oil and gas resource

As Namibia looks set to enter the uncertain waters of the international oil industry, John Grobler analyses the legal and technical challenges emerging as the biggest obstacles...

10 February, 2026

Coal’s slow death in Mpumalanga

As jobs disappear from the coal belt, Middelburg’s economy is buckling. Unpaid rates, collapsing businesses and stalled transition support are deepening the crisis...

20 January, 2026

Power, land and secrecy

After nine months of chasing information about renewable energy land lease deals across South Africa, we share what we learned. Roxanne Joseph reports...

20 November, 2025

Court case tackles not-so-proudly-South African solar power

A landmark High Court case challenges the government and independent power producers to apply localisation laws designed to drive South Africa’s green industrial development...

07 November, 2025

Inside renewable energy land deals

Long-term leases turn public land into corporate profit, but how are these deals structured, and are communities seeing their share? #PowerTracker investigates...

17 October, 2025