Takudzwa Musekiwa

Takudzwa Musekiwa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria (South Africa). His work examines the political economy of energy transitions, inequality, and governance across Southern Africa, focusing on coal-dependent communities and regions undergoing structural adjustment. He critically analyses how national decarbonisation strategies, international climate finance, and multilevel governance arrangements influence local development trajectories, labour markets, municipal capacity, and political trust. His current research examines South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), assessing its socio-economic impacts and policy design implications for Mpumalanga Province, Africa’s largest coal-producing region. His research informs debates on inclusive, place-based low-carbon transitions, just labour transitions, and resilient municipal governance in the Global South. More broadly, his research interests include climate governance, development policy, inequality, and the politics of state–society relations in the Global South.