Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and Eastern Cape Communities Talks Climate Justice on Kingfisher FM
Since early-May 2022, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and eco-justice activists in Eastern Cape have formed a partnership with Kingfisher FM, in a bid to keep local communities informed and get them involved in the region’s climate action efforts. These community activists are part of a wider initiative Grassroots for Climate Action, which also includes environmental defenders from Gauteng and Limpopo province. The group is working to educate and inform themselves (and their communities) about #ClimateChange and the #JustTransition. Read more here.
Earthlife Africa Johannesburg in the News this April
Earthlife Africa Johannesburg has been hard at work, creating widespread awareness about the intensifying climate crises and the need to move more decisively toward the #JustTransition. As such, the team has had a number of interviews with media. Earthlife Africa’s Policy Advisor Bongiwe Matsoha spoke to Radio 702’s Weekend Breakfast on why it is necessary to increase grassroots-level engagement and popular education on energy-related issues, and on the Just Transition Framework. And the NGO’s Ulrich Steenkamp joined one of the authors of the UN’s IPCC report, to shed light from an African and SA perspective. Read more here.
Five Years After the Illegal Nuclear Deal, South Africa Still Struggling with a Broken Energy System That is Not Fit for Purpose
April is not only significant to South Africa as Freedom Month. This is also the month that Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) commemorate the court victory that exposed the severity of the corruption within the State and halted government’s “illegal and unconstitutional” R1-trillion nuclear energy deal with Russia. As far as we are concerned, writes Francesca de Gasparis and Makoma Lekalakala, 26 April 2017 is one of the most important days in our country’s post-apartheid history – at the time, economists predicted that it would bankrupt the country. Since then, the Zondo Commission has exposed even more, but that is an OpEd for another day. Read the full Op-Ed here.
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