PATRICK BULGER | Flogging a Trojan Horse: Putin’s war and the tussle over SA’s energy sector

Conflict over our ‘just transition’ has thrown debate over the world’s energy future wide open. Who to believe in this propaganda war?

19 May 2022 - 20:31

My neighbour’s handyman says he hasn’t been feeling well lately, and his wife tells him it’s the news that’s making him sick. He doesn’t agree, but to please her he’s stopped buying newspapers, and he’s still got a TV in his workshop anyway. “I watch all the channels,” he tells me and he doesn’t sound that good either. News can affect you: some get sick, others get even...

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