6th Anniversary of the Corrupt Nuclear Deal Court Victory (and the Chernobyl Plant Disaster) – Lessons and What is the Future for Nuclear

by Earthlife | 8 May, 2023 | News, Press Releases, Publications

Ulrich Steenkamp shares some of the lessons Earthlife Africa learned from mobilising South Africans to act against the unlawful R1-trillion nuclear deal. Cape Town: On 26 April 2023, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg joined the Southern African Faith Communities’...

2023 Looks Bleak, with South Africa’s Struggle for Electricity at its Worst 

by Earthlife | 24 April, 2023 | News, Press Releases, Publications

By Ketshepaone Modise Climate Energy Officer Earthlife Africa Residents of South Africa will remember 2022 for a host of different reasons, but one collective memory will be of the almost unremitting burden of power cuts. In total, there were 157 full days of load...

SA is Failing its Climate Commitments – is the Jet Investment Plan Too Little, Too Late?

by Earthlife | 24 April, 2023 | News, Press Releases, Publications

By Environmental Researcher Dr Neil Overy and Ulrich Steenkamp Programs Officer Earthlife Africa  Will the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP), unveiled by President Cyril Ramaphosa in November 2022, be enough to accelerate an equitable and just transition...

Biocultural Community Protocol process seeks to protect living natural heritage in Venda

by Earthlife | 24 April, 2023 | News, Press Releases, Publications

In Venda, you measure distance by the sound of drums. This is what greets us every time we travel to Thohoyandou, the former capital of the Venda homeland in what is now Limpopo, South Africa. The city is snuggled against the vast forested hills, with the names of...

New groundWork Report Interrogates Just how Fair is South Africa’s Just Transition? 

by Earthlife | 24 April, 2023 | News, Press Releases, Publications

On 24 March 2023, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg attended the launch of groundWork’s report Contested Transition: State and Capital against Community.  The groundWork Report 2022 follows the 2019 and 2020 reports in its focus on the just (or unjust) transition. Since...