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The dependence on non-renewable energy sources has been a major driver of economic growth in South Africa. Economic growth benefits the society via the provision of infrastructures, improvement in living standards and employment creation. However, it has its downsides, especially when an economy pays less attention to its natural environment while intensifying its desire for affluence (Uddin et al. 2019; Yasmeen et al. 2020). In Africa, South Africa is arguably the most developed. This development comes with employment generation, improved welfare, export expansion and a foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. Now, keeping pace with this development comes at a cost to the environment. It has inflicted a trade-off between higher economic growth and lower environmental quality. Therefore, despite flourishing in terms of economic performances, the environmental attributes in South Africa have persistently deteriorated over time as the country now harbours an ecological deficit territory (Global Footprint Network (GFN), 2019). An ecological deficit territory is the one where the ecological footprint (EF) is higher than the biocapacity (Siriwat, Tiedt 2019; World Wildlife Fund, 2018). In South Africa, for instance, the biocapacity and EF were respectively 1.46 gha and 3.35 gha in 1990. The biocapacity dwindled to 1.26 gha, whereas the EF stood at 3.05 gha in 2000. In 2010, the EF soared to 3.60 gha, leading to a decline in the country's biocapacity to 1.08 gha. In 2017, the country's biocapacity declined to 1.03 gha, whereas its EF was 3.16 gha (GFN, 2019).