Student supervision: Honours
Goitseone Mothibe, TBC.
Bongeka Lushaba, TBC. (Co-supervisor Anneri Oosthuizen)
Hannah Welsh, TBC. (Co-supervisor Alanda Venter)
Dzunisani Chauke, TBC.
Boitumelo, Masia, 2023. “Energy Poverty and Economic Growth in South Africa: An ARDL Analysis”.
Jordan Van De Merwe, 2023. “Evaluating the Environmental Phillips Curve in South Africa,considering Policy Uncertainty”.
Mattheu van Aswegen, 2023. “Electric vehicles: when will they charge ahead? Exploring the factors driving EV adoption”.
WiZelle Kritzinger, 2023. “Bringing the Heat: Does Climate Change Exacerbate Energy Poverty in South Africa?”.
Millenium Kgoete, 2022. “The Next 11 Countries. Where Is South Africa?”.
Georgia Taylor, 2022. “Renewable energy: The missing economic factor in South Africa”
Jessika Risk, 2022. “How the surge in carbon emissions from economic growth has affected health: Positioning South Africa to the world”
Monica Farinha, 2020. “Examining the determinants of carbon emissions on all OECD countries as well as countries with a carbon tax”.
Tebogo Sehlapelo, 2020. “Provincial electricity demand in South Africa: highlighting potential for regional intervention”.
Tichinashe Mabugu, 2020. “The effect of mismatched supply and demand of electricity on economic growth in South Africa”.
Charite Leta, 2019. “An analysis of the relationship between poverty eradication (SDG1), food security (SDG2), access to water (SDG6) and access to energy (SDG7) in South Africa”.
Khutso Segooa, 2019. “Living Standards and Economic poverty: The case of South Africa”.
Mutshidzi Bulannga, 2019. “Examining the progress of South Africa from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals”.
Nozipho Hlophe, 2018. “Forecasting aggregate electricity demand in South Africa – Estimation of price and income elasticities”.
Anneri Oosthuizen, 2018. “The impact of renewable share to consumer prices in the European Union”.
Dzingai Chapfuwa, 2018. “An Empirical Analysis of the Aggregate Electricity Demand In South Africa”.
Marie Dominique Kouakou, 2017. “Mortality rates and carbon dioxide emissions”.
Tshegofatso Molefe, 2017. “Carbon intensity: Positioning South Africa”.
Hope L. Muronga, 2017. “The effect of energy on output per worker in South African mines”.
Masedi Sesele, 2017. “Carbon intensity: Is South Africa "dirtier" than other countries?”
Benjamin Ntsabele, 2016. “Long-run relationship between oil quantity used in the South African transport sector and its determinants: A cointegration approach”.
Matome Modiba, 2016. “The determinants of energy consumption in the South African transport sector: A decomposition analysis”.
Lerato Enele, 2016. “Factors driving demand for energy within the transport sector for the BRICS countries”.
Luis diez del corral, 2015. “Cointegration in long term prices of domestic electricity, coal, crude oil, gas, wind and solar: A study of Germany”.
Lauren Kuhn, 2015. “Revisiting Residential Electricity Demand in South Africa”.
Karmie Wessels, 2013. “Renewable energy in South Africa: A cost-benefit analysis of solar energy”.
Hendrik Lourens, 2013 “The relationship between renewable energy and economic growth in South Africa”
Student supervision: Masters
Dylan Blom. Co-supervision with Prof Nicky Nicholls.
Khutso Ntsoane. TBD
Harry Venter. TBD
Mattheu van Aswegen. TBD
Wizelle Kritzinger. TBD
Fritz Shongwe. (Graduation 2024). “Transport Emissions: ICT, Carbon Taxes &Emissions Trading Linkages”.
Anneri Oosthuizen (Graduation 2021). “The impact of policy priority flexibility on the speed of renewable energy adoption”.
Ashley Gandy (Graduation 2021). “An analysis of biomass energy consumption and economic growth in leading biomass consuming countries”.
Charite Leta (Graduation 2021). “Emissions and gender equality in the labour market: A panel data evidence from OECD of 57 countries”.
Marco de Gouveia (Graduation 2021). “Examining the relationship between climate change-related research output and CO2 emissions”.
Saida Musyoki (Graduation 2021). “Revisiting the EKC hypothesis in South Africa: Ecological footprint vs Emissions as proxy for environmental degradation”.
Masedi Sesele, (Graduation 2020). “The role of non-renewable energy sources to economic output at selected South African sectors”.
Alanda Venter, (Graduation 2020). “South Africa’s sectoral electricity demand forecast: Demand-Supply balance forecast”.
Fatoumata Bintah, (Graduation 2020). “Energy consumption and (de)industrialization in the sub-Saharan African countries”.
Tshegofatso Molefe, (Graduation 2020). “Food-Energy-Water nexus from a SDG lens: Big 5 African countries”.
J-R Boltman, (Graduation 2018). The impact of high- and non-high-tech trade in a country’s emissions and energy efficiency profile: Do developed and developing countries differ? Thesis Grade 75%
Jeetesh Manilall, 2017 (Graduation 2017). An Energy Efficient, Environmental Kuznets Curve Model (EE EKC). Thesis Grade 75%.
Tessie Chinembiri, 2016 (Graduation 2017). Determinants of energy efficiency in Zambia: the role of hydropower. Thesis Grade 78%.
Kerschyl Singh, 2016 (Graduation 2017). Energy Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thesis Grade 70%.
Luis diez del corral, 2016 (Graduation 2017). The effect of education on a country's energy profile: Evidence from developed and developing countries. Thesis Grade 78%.
Nolwazi Hlophe, 2016 (Graduation 2017). Environmental Kuznets curve in South Africa: Factors affecting it. Thesis Grade 75%
Jessika Andreina Torres Noriega, 2015 (Graduation 2016). Co-supervision with Prof J. van Heerden. MCom Economics, “A Supply Side Evaluation of New Power Generation in South Africa: A CGE Application”. Thesis Grade 80%
Jaco Weideman, 2015. Co-supervision with Prof J. van Heerden. MCom Economics, Structural Breaks in Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Bai-Perron break-test application. Thesis Grade 76%
Amandine Nakumuryango, 2014. MCom Economics, South Africa’s performance on renewable energy and its relative position against the OECD countries and the rest of Africa. Thesis Grade 75%
Janneke Dlamini, 2013, MCom Economics, Co-supervision with Prof R. Gupta .Revisiting the causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in South Africa: A bootstrap rolling-window approach. Thesis Grade 75%
Wendy Cowan, 2013, MCom Economics, “The nexus of electricity consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in the BRICS countries”. Thesis Grade 80%
Hamilton Ntuli, 2013, MCom Economics, “Research output and Economic Growth in 34 OECD countries: A bootstrap panel causality exercise”. Thesis Grade 72%.
Vittorio Peretti, 2012, MCom Economics, Co-supervision with Prof R. Gupta, “Do house prices impact consumption and interest rate in South Africa? Evidence from a time-varying Vector Autoregressive Model”. Thesis Grade 77%
Student supervision: PhD
Completed
Alanda Venter. 2024. The role of institutions on the energy supply markets.
Mendy Ugembe. 2023. Co-supervision with Prof Miguel Centeno Brito. Analysis of the Economic Impact of Renewable Energy Exploration in Mozambique: The case Study of Cahora_Bassa Hydro-electrical Power, 1994-2015. University of Lisbon.
Chris Milindi. 2022. Analysing the impact of technological progress on emissions levels: Evidence and lessons from different income-group countries.
Vanessa Ndlovu. 2020. The role of renewable energy in the South African energy supply mix and economy.
Jessika Bohlmann. 2020. Evaluating the impacts of energy and environmental policy on South African households.
Currently registered
Charite Leta. Expected year of completion: 2026.
Anneri Oosthuizen. Expected year of completion: 2025. “Female Empowerment and Climate Change”
Jaco Nel. Macroeconomic effects of electric vehicle adoption in South Africa. Expected year of completion: 2025.
Nancy Mukalayi Muvumbu. The impact of digital financial inclusion on energy and the environment. Expected year of completion: 2024.
Damien Moodley.
Fritz Shongue.