Ashley Simango

Countries like South Africa, a neighbor of Botswana, have sought to prevent the import of old cars from Japan, Europe, or the US, whether EVs or gasoline-powered vehicles. South Africa requires that old cars arriving from abroad, when in transit at its seaports, must not be driven on local roads; they must be transported by haulage trucks out of the country to frontier countries. It doesn’t really work, says Juru, because ‘the same old EVs and gasoline cars are smuggled back into South Africa’. 

Africa's first roadside vehicle emission data sensors went live in Johannesburg, the wealthiest city in South Africa, in July. The goal is to measure the tailpipe carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a batch of 100,000 vehicles daily. To date, no city in sub-Saharan Africa has implemented car emission-free zones like those in Paris or Amsterdam. South Africa  is the 13 th  most carbon-polluting economy on earth. Raeesa Moolla , an air quality expert at the city's Wits University, reports that...