Just as Eskom celebrated the ‘completion’ of its controversial and over-priced Medupi coal-fired power station about a week ago, an explosion rocked the local community of Lephalale in Limpopo Province, on Sunday (8 August) night. Community members and police...
It was recently widely reported in the media that a US-based engineering company has been awarded a R20bn contract to extend the life of the Koeberg nuclear power plant. Activists and civil organisations are concerned that the legal processes required to grant a...
While news of the ‘completion’ of the Medupi power station has been met with both celebration and scepticism, women in Lephalale (in Limpopo) and surrounds, however, are filled with dread of having a pollution-intensive coal-fired power station in their backyard and...
As the impacts of the climate crisis become ever more apparent, people around the world, led by Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, and frontline communities, are demanding action. In response, Big Polluters and the governments that do their bidding have begun to tout...
In early May – ahead of a discussion around the World Bank’s engagement on the African continent to support borrowing countries’ energy sectors – Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and dozens of organisations concerned about the climate crisis, called on its Executive...
