Just Access: The Real Transition

Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part podcast series from PARI (the Public Affairs Research Institute) exploring what a truly just transition means for South Africa - not only in energy policy, but in access to land, water, power, decision-making and economic opportunity. Episode 5 turns to the state itself and asks what happens when the institutions meant to lead the transition are uncertain, constrained, or internally conflicted. Following the restructuring of the former Depart...

Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part podcast series from PARI (the Public Affairs Research Institute) exploring what a truly just transition means for South Africa — not only in energy policy, but in access to land, water, power, decision-making and economic opportunity. Episode 4 moves the conversation from national debates to the level where the transition becomes real: local government. As climate change, renewable energy development, and settlement pressures intensify, municipali...

Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part podcast series from PARI (the Public Affairs Research Institute) exploring what a truly just transition means for South Africa — not only in energy policy, but in access to land, water, power, decision-making and economic opportunity. Episode 3 turns to the ground beneath the transition: land. As South Africa accelerates renewable energy and green hydrogen projects, new pressures are being placed on land that already carries a long and unresolved ...

Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part podcast series from PARI (the Public Affairs Research Institute) exploring what a truly just transition means for South Africa — not only in energy policy, but in access to land, water, power, decision-making and economic opportunity. Episode 2 asks a harder follow-up to the first episode’s core insight: if connection isn’t the same as access, how is exclusion produced and maintained? Tasneem Essop returns to economist Dr Tracy Ledger, who explain...

Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part podcast series from PARI (the Public Affairs Research Institute) exploring what a truly just transition means for South Africa — not only in energy policy, but in access to land, water, power, decision-making and economic opportunity. Episode 1 begins with a fundamental question: what does justice actually look like in practice? Tasneem Essop speaks with economist Dr Tracy Ledger, who leads PARI’s Just Transition Programme, about why millions of S...