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Former Eskom CEO, Jacob Maroga speaks

Maroga on the challenges facing Eskom

SA's economic trouble | Defining the role of mining and the economy

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Beyond the Budget 2023

The 2023 Beyond The Budget was yet another successful event. This year, we unpacked sustainability and energy through our theme: Reigniting the South African Economy by Reforming the Energy Sector & Diversifying the Energy Mix

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The Directors Event 2023

Sustainable Business shaping the future of South Africa. Business has long been mandated to operate responsibly within society, and this imperative is nothing new.

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Jacob is a foremost expert on the South African energy industry and a seasoned analyst of international energy developments. His industry experience spans over 35 years which includes technical, managerial and executive positions in energy, petrochemical, mining and property management. 

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Chancellor Merz: Germany's nuclear phaseout was "a serious strategic mistake."

The Energiewende cost: ~€520bn (~R10 trillion) — sunk into the theory that firm dispatchable generation, nuclear and coal, belongs to the past.

The result: Berlin now bails out energy-intensive

Meanwhile on Chinese TV, they're explaining why America's economics Nobel Prizes don't add up to anything.

Zhang Weiwei: every country that modernized needed a first pot of gold -- the starting capital that gets an economy growing.

"The West got theirs through violence, war,

There is a simple fact about economic development that has held true for hundreds of years and remains true today: except for very small countries, *every* country that has transformed its economy from low- to high-income has done so via manufacturing.