Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, Spokesperson of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, talks about the devastating power crisis in the country. She talks about how the crisis will pave the way for further privatization of the energy sector. She explains how the State-owned entity, Eskom, has been left out of South Africa’s shift to renewable energy and how it betrays the principles of Just Transition. She also talks about how Eskom could be restructured and saved.
Protests in breakaway Somaliland call for reunification with Somalia
Even as the US and UK are increasingly legitimizing secessionist rule in Somaliland, whose sovereignty has no international recognition, a unionist movement seeking a united Somalia threatens to unravel the self-declared republic