The cost of Eskom’s secret pricing deals | Currency News
Eskom’s secretive pricing deals with aluminium giant South32 reveal how claims of ‘commercial confidentiality’ are used to block access to information in the public interest.
The corporations and individuals profiteering from fossil fuel use and those who stand profit from a transition to renewable energy.
We Can’t See the Sunset Documentary Trailer
We Can’t See the Sunset Documentary TrailerClimate Profiteers News Open Secrets TV People's Hearing August 30, 2025 Mamello Mosiana Nolwazi Nene In a country shadowed by smokescreens and broken promises, We Can’t See the Sunset is a haunting journey into the human cost of the climate crisis. Through interviews with Open Secrets investigator Zen Mathe…
Access to Information in the Climate, Energy, and Environmental Space
The Access to Information Network (ATI Network) compiled and submitted a report engaging with how our courts have interpreted and applied the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) in cases concerning access to information, particularly on energy- and climate-related information requests.
The cheap electricity deal South32 has with Eskom | 702
John Perlman chats to Michael Marchant, Head of Investigations at Open Secrets on the cheap electricity deal between Eskom and South32. They touch on the fact that some of the deals similar to this one were developed at a time when the production of electricity was not a problem.
Clean-break and Dirty Air (Part 2) | The consultants who supported CEF’s SAPREF oil refinery gambit
Consultants downplayed previous warnings given to the Central Energy Fund about the purchase of Sapref’s oil refinery in South Durban, which has serious implications for the state and the public.
WATCH| The People’s Hearing on Energy Profiteers 2025- We can’t See the Sunset
Watch the recording of the People’s Hearing on Energy Profiteers Part 2 which brought together communities, activists, and organisations for a powerful day of art, activism, and accountability for the climate crisis and energy crisis in South Africa.
Clean-break and Dirty Air (Part 1) | CEF ignores red flags and gives Shell and BP a clean-break on SAPREF deal
In May 2024, the state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) announced that it would purchase the South African Petroleum Refinery (Sapref) oil refinery in South Durban – and all its related assets – for just R1.Â
PRESS RELEASE | Parliamentarians’ pension fund balks at transparencyÂ
Fossil Free South Africa (FFSA) and Open Secrets express dismay and alarm at the refusal by the South African parliamentarians’ pension fund to divulge whether it invests in fossil fuel companies and in companies trading with human rights-abusing regimes, like Israel.
Media Alert
The Climate Consultants, a new investigation by Open Secrets, shows how management consultants are cashing in on the climate crisis.
INVESTIGATION | The Climate Consultants: How Management Consultants Cash in on the Climate Crisis
The Climate Consultants, a new investigation by Open Secrets, shows how management consultants are cashing in on the climate crisis and highlights that there must be public debate about how we hold these unelected private technocrats to account.