Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HLABANE Matthews
SAGRC is an environmental and social justice organisation based in Emalahleni. It started in the 1980s. Emalahleni is surrounded by mines. At that time, as the police were busy chasing activists, shooting around, and people were running away, into the bushes. They were not aware that some of (…)
, by SATGAR Vishwas, SOLOMON Janet
Hosken Consolidated Investment (HCI) CEO, Johnny Copelyn, declared the criticism of seismic surveys to be ‘poppycock’ in an interview with Cape Talk and subsequently carried by Business Day under the headline: HCI board blasts criticism of seismic surveys as “poppycock.” Fortunately this (…)
Mass grassroots campaign calls for system change now and for a climate justice deal that ends the suffering of the most vulnerable and oppressed
“As Africans, we live together on a vast and beautiful continent where the human story began. All of us are linked to the first human who walked (…)
, by Andrea Gemma Films
The Cape Water Crisis. A film by Andrea Gema Films, produced by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southern Africa.
Cape Town, South Africa, is dealing with a massive and serious water crisis. Cape Town residents have been told not use more than 50 litres of water a day. Fresh water shouldn’t be used (…)
, by TAYLOR Tristen
Story of a successful anti-nuclear campaign in South Africa
Earthlife Africa has won its challenge against the South African Government’s one trillion rand nuclear power plant. Dr. Tristen Taylor, former Project Coordinator (Director) of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg’s Sustainable Energy and (…)
, by BOND Patrick
The environment minister has cut funds to monitor climate change and contraventions, showing her tendency to collaborate with corporate power.
For members of Parliament hearing testimony in Durban on climate change on Friday August 29, the critical baby step in the direction of a sane climate (…)
, by BOND Patrick
The following is an excerpt from a new book, Durban’s Climate Gamble: Playing the Carbon Markets, Betting the Earth, launched on November 23, 2011, ahead of the November 28–December 9 COP17 climate change talks by UNISA Press. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Dumping on Africans. “Durban’s methane-electricity conversion at three local landfills shows the futility of the CDM, not to mention the historic injustice of keeping the Bisasar Road dump (Africa’s largest) open in spite of resident objections to environmental racism.”
February 2, 2011 – (…)
, by BOND Patrick
March 16, 2010 — In an indication that the climate justice movement is broadening, deepening and going local, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa. The campaign is led by community activists in black townships allied with environmentalists, trade (…)
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