PETER ATTARD MONTALTO: A lot of money is riding on SA’s credibility and coherence
Climate envoys from the north will find a haphazard jigsaw of policy and personas
19 September 2021 - 19:26
There are reams of critical thought on what a mature democracy is and is not. Much can then be said about the Constitutional Court, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) and the like. But I think that the department of minerals & energy has added a more useful test case in the past week.
At issue is a satirical video from Politically Aweh, showing an “advert” from the “DMRE” promoting a pro-coal and pro-carbon line, which was genuinely funny. Maybe I found it more funny than most having spent so much time in recent years with head in hands on energy policy. It was some light relief...
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