by Earthlife | 7 December, 2021 | Events, News, Press Releases, Publications
On Saturday 23 October 2021, as the world prepared for the start of COP26, a small community in the far north of Limpopo province gathered at Lekkerlag Farm in Musina, to bring much-needed awareness to the potentially devastating impacts of the proposed Musina-Makhado...
by Earthlife | 6 December, 2021 | News, Press Releases, Publications
Are you confused about whether or not nuclear energy should be considered as part of the just energy transition? Well, scratch your head no more. In this publication Neither Climate nor Jobs: Nuclear Myths about the Just Transition our partners (the Heinrich Boell...
by Earthlife | 2 September, 2021 | News, Press Releases, Publications
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...
by Earthlife | 11 August, 2021 | Press Releases, Publications
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...
by Earthlife | 14 June, 2021 | News, Publications
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...