South Africa will be shut out of global trade if it doesn’t have a clean technology industrial base by 2030. This will lead to a rapid deindustrialisation of the economy.

This is according to James MacKay, CEO of the Energy Council, who says there’s no more time to engage in ideological debates about protection of coal constituencies when there’s a rapid shift towards cleaner energy in other parts of the world. ..

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