Leveraging South Africa’s renewable energy initiative to revitalise Merafong City’s distressed mining township economies

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dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-22T16:01:08Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-22T16:01:08Z
dc.date.issued	2025-04-22	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/24185
dc.description	HSRC Policy Brief, April	en
dc.description.abstract	This oversight engenders and promotes pro-market, favouring well-established private sector businesses to submit tenders as Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Consequently, it fails to create an enabling environment for local government to leverage South Africa’s REI4P as an LED initiative to revitalize distressed mining township economies, such as those in Merafong City. This policy brief outlines the potential and strategies for leveraging the REI4P to revitalize distressed mining township economies, utilizing township-based SMMEs as rooftop solar photovoltaic SSEEGs.	en
dc.format.medium	Print	en
dc.subject	SMALL MEDIUM AND MICRO ENTERPRISES	en
dc.subject	LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT	en
dc.subject	MERAFONG MUNICIPALITY	en
dc.subject	RENEWABLE ENERGY	en
dc.title	Leveraging South Africa’s renewable energy initiative to revitalise Merafong City’s distressed mining township economies	en
dc.type	Policy brief	en
dc.description.version	N/A	en
dc.BudgetYear	2025/26	en
dc.ResearchGroup	Africa, BRICS and the Global South	en
dc.ArchiveNumber	9814916	en
dc.URL	https://datafiles.hsrc.ac.za/eRKC%20-%20Electronic%20%20Copies%20of%20Research%20Outputs/Policy%20Briefs/9814916/9814916.pdf?ga=1	en
dc.outputnumber	15574	en
dc.bibliographictitle	Mashamaite, P.M. (2025) Leveraging South Africa’s renewable energy initiative to revitalise Merafong City’s distressed mining township economies. (HSRC Policy Brief, April).	en
dc.publicationyear	2025	en
dc.contributor.author1	Mashamaite, P.M.	en