You can’t blame anyone in SA for being sceptical of a government promise of new jobs and opportunities — fool me once, right? It is no surprise then that the people of Mpumalanga are resistant to any notion of a just transition and the jobs it promises to bring.
But this is exactly the hard sell that the Presidential Climate Commission must make in this province where half the people are already unemployed and 90,000 jobs in coal mines and power plants will be affected by the closure of old coal-fired power plants (which will eventually happen)...
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