Yolandi Groenewald
Yolandi Groenewald is a South African environmental reporter, particularly experienced in the investigative field. After 10 years at the Mail & Guardian, she signed on with City Press in 2011. Her investigative environmental features have been recognised with numerous national journalism awards. Her coverage revolves around climate change politics, land reform, polluting mines, and environmental health. The world’s journey to find a deal to address climate change has shaped her career to a great degree. Yolandi attended her first climate change conference in Montreal in 2005. In the last decade, she has been present at seven of the COP’s, including the all-important COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. South Africa’s own addiction to coal in the midst of these talks has featured prominently in her reports.
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/ 28 April 2000

Still not yet Uhuru

The post-Nyerere Tanzania is returning to a bustling capitalism, but there are signs of further colonialism John Matshikiza ‘Many years ago,” says my friend Juma, “Mwalimu [Julius Nyerere] didn’t allow any of these kind of businesses. He only allowed state shops. Now you see small shops everywhere.” It’s odd. I don’t feel that old. But […]

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/ 1 October 1997

A yen for a brave new world

Will Japans economic reform programme deliver, asks Victor Keegan It was 8.45am and Dr Shoichiro Toyoda, chair of Toyota and of the Keidanren employers organisation, was explaining Japans planned Big Bang reforms. The office block shuddered. Tokyo was experiencing one of its periodic earthquakes. Fortunately, at 5,2 on the Richter scale this was only a […]