African development needs both electricity and decarbonisation – Ramokgopa

South African Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has affirmed that Africa did not face a choice between decarbonisation and industrialisation. On the contrary, it had to, and could do, both. He was delivering the keynote address at the Africa Energy Forum 2025, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on Tuesday evening. “We will not accept the false binary between decarbonisation and industrialisation,” he stated. Decarbonisation could not be used to block African aspirations. It had to support African aspirations.