One afternoon in the early 1990s, a group of pupils at the primary school I attended performed a drama about the Tsotso (twigs) stove (an improved biomass cookstove) to raise awareness about clean cooking. The message was simple: the open fires or simple metal stoves used for cooking in our villages were harmful and contributing …
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Can African countries make 2024 a turning point in improving access to clean cooking?
Photo credit: International Energy Agency Next week, on 14 May 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) will convene a Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This summit will be attended by government officials, most of them from Africa, and invitees from private companies, international organisations and civil society. The …
Energy poverty: an underperceived albeit a critical form of poverty!
Source: https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/endenergypoverty In her most enlightening book, How Boards Work, Dambisa Moyo calls for corporate companies to, with the influence and guidance of their boards, constructively and methodically act to address societal and environmental concerns such as gender inequality, poverty and emissions of greenhouse gases. I found this both encouraging and refreshing. It made me …
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Blessing Gweshengwe PhD 