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Tragedy of Komati: the narrative of a ‘just’ transition rapidly unravelling
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Sunday World
The small town of Komati in Mpumalanga has become the epicenter of a grand, high-stakes experiment: South Africa’s Just Energy Transition (JET).
The Just Energy Transition (JET) was indeed jet setting as bureaucrats hopped from capital to capital in preparation for a series of COPs that would follow.
Two years on, the narrative of a “just” transition is rapidly unravelling.
The Lehohla Ledger traces the transition of disruption from a relatively good life in Komati that suddenly got disrupted by the JET, which left families destitute.
For these families, the “Just Transition”; is experienced as a one-way transition from formal employment to indigence.