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Card image 01 December 2025 The Elephant

South Africa’s Hydrogen Extractive Frontier: Climate Action or Recolonisation?

In this blog post, Thelma Arko and Kattia Moreno critically examine South Africa’s emerging green hydrogen sector, arguing that contemporary partnerships with European nations risk reproducing colonial extractive relationships under the guise of climate action. Arko and Moreno advance the necessity of a justice-centred, post-extractivist transition that prioritises community control, equitable benefit-sharing, and integration of renewable development with existing land uses and economic activities.

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