Community Stories: Without Proper Information Sharing, Communities will Struggle to Change Their Circumstances

by Earthlife | 27 May, 2022 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications

“Earthlife Africa’s Sibongile Ndlovu regularly visits communities in Gauteng to unpack the just transition.” Ivory Park (in Midrand, not far from Tembisa) is a high-density residential area that was established in the 1990s to accommodate informal settlers and...

Earthlife Africa Johannesburg in the News this April:

by Earthlife | 27 May, 2022 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications

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. See more below....

OPINION: SA Youth Say, “It is Time to Put Mother Earth on A Carbon Diet”

by Earthlife | 27 May, 2022 | News, Press Releases, Publications

Barely two weeks after the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) visited KwaZulu-Natal to engage communities on climate change and the just transition, the province was hit with the worst floods we have ever seen. No longer merely environmental activist rhetoric, the...

South Africans Call for More Grassroots Engagement and Popular Education on Just Transition Framework

by Earthlife | 19 May, 2022 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications

“In the just transition, only developments that recognise and respect human and environmental rights should be considered.” Over the past few weeks, the Presidential Climate Change (PCC) Commission has started to ramp-up its consultation with communities on a...

Five Years After the Illegal Nuclear Deal, South Africa Still Struggling with a Broken Energy System That is Not Fit for Purpose

by Earthlife | 19 May, 2022 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications

At a meeting in 2017, Russian and American activists Vladimir Slivyak and Chris Williams share their experiences with dangerous nuclear power, with South African communities. April is not only significant to South Africa as Freedom Month. This is also the month that...

5 Years After the Corrupt Nuclear Deal was Stopped, SA Still Waits for Improved Energy Decision-Making

by Earthlife | 19 May, 2022 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications

South Africans celebrate five years since stopping the illegal R1-trillion nuclear deal. It has been five years since the High court ruling (on 26 April 2017) that exposed the severity of state corruption and halted government’s “illegal and unconstitutional”...