{"id":55114,"date":"2023-10-17T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mantashe-slams-ngos-weaponising-climate-change-against-development"},"modified":"2023-10-17T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:54:12","slug":"mantashe-slams-ngos-weaponising-climate-change-against-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mantashe-slams-ngos-weaponising-climate-change-against-development","title":{"rendered":"Mantashe slams NGOs \u2018weaponising climate change against development\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of mineral resources &amp; energy Gwede Mantashe says the energy transition and causes of climate change are being \u201cweaponised\u201d against development on the African continent through its natural fossil-fuel endowments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent sizeable discoveries of oil in Namibia and Co\u0302te d&#8217;Ivoire and gas in South Africa are proving to be a game-changer and have intensified the need to step up exploration campaigns on the African continent. This is an opportunity for Africa to benefit from its endowment of these natural resources, as it is with critical minerals,\u201d said Mantashe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA binding constraint to Africa\u2019s increased oil and gas exploration programme this conference must help us find solutions to is the weaponisation of climate change against development, at the centre of which are foreign funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mantashe was speaking at African Energy Week in Cape Town on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by delegates from global energy companies and government officials from across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Mantashe said South Africa and the African continent needed to have \u201cthe correct approach\u201d to the energy transition. He said South Africa needed to strengthen its energy baseload as it partnered with producers of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn South Africa we suffer from something called load-shedding. It is not because we do not have enough coal or enough plants. We have that. It is because we do not have transmission capacity,\u201d Mantashe said.<\/p>\n<p>Executive chair of the African Energy Chamber NJ Ayuk said Africa was being told to stop extracting coal, oil and other fuels and move to clean energy despite new discoveries in South Africa, Namibia and Nigeria which indicate the continent has a chance to drive energy investment on its own terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom frontier exploration, countries like Namibia that were known as frontiers are no longer frontiers. They are hotspots. But also in countries like Senegal we see people saying don\u2019t leave it in the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ayuk said while proposals to move to clean energy were valid, Africa had a more urgent need to feed, power and sustain its economies than developed economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have to be very truthful to ourselves. We have to listen to what young people are telling us this morning. Drill, baby, drill. You cannot produce gas if you don\u2019t drill. We have to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t take too long to produce a project by the time you need to sign it. Sign, baby, sign. We need to create an enabling environment for energy investment. Our industry has not been the best to 52% of Africa. Women continue to be the last hired and first fired in our sector,\u201d Ayuk said.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, a small crowd of young people could be seen outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre (ICC). They carried signs reading \u201cwe need oil and gas now\u201d and \u201cenergy for all\u201d, but appeared to be unaware of the event in the ICC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Minister of mineral resources &amp; energy Gwede Mantashe says the energy transition and causes of climate change are being \u201cweaponised\u201d against development on the African continent through its natural fossil-fuel endowments. \u201cThe recent sizeable discoveries of oil in Namibia and Co\u0302te d&#8217;Ivoire and gas in South Africa are proving to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-55114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mantashe slams NGOs \u2018weaponising climate change against development\u2019 - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of mineral resources &amp; 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