South Africa’s Just Energy Transition (JET) and Investment Plan are paving the way for the shift to renewables in the Global South. Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism’s #PowerTracker platform and investigations interrogates the JET roll-out by focusing on Mpumalanga, where most coal mines and power stations are. The series comprises hard investigations that track financial flows […]
Nicole Solomon is the AECI’s social responsibility and sustainability manager. The AECI Group Corporate Social Responsibility Fund has established a partnership with Petco to address waste management as a revenue stream for unemployed women and youth. When the unemployed youth blossom into skilled entrepreneurs and when women gain access to the economy through coaching and […]
Mpendulo Mbulawa is instrumental in getting rid of illegal dumping areas in uMhlathuze local municipality. He is the leader of the Green Chapter Foundation, a community-based organisation based at Ngwelezane township near Empangeni and Richards Bay. The foundation must be recognised for its consistency in keeping the City of uMhlathuze at large clean and green […]
The Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) social movement builds grassroot structures that are empowered to understand the climate crisis facing their communities and society at large. The issue of climate change is integrally linked to democracy. Along with the Women Affected by Mining United in Action movement, Macua campaigns for the right of […]
Maskam, the northern point of the Matzikama Mountains in Namaqualand, is a Khoisan term that means “it gives water”, which is exactly what the company Maskam Water does. Maskam began in turf irrigation nearly 40 years ago, but changed tack because of the demand for alternative water sources. Its sustainable water solutions have now become […]
Marlyn Hendricks, Bashkaran Vandeyar and Avuyile Kewana work for the City of Cape Town, helping the municipality to mitigate climate change problems and meet the goals of its Climate Change Action Plan. As a project manager and senior professional officer for municipal generation contracts, part of Marlyn’s job is getting rooftop and ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) […]
In 1995, Royal Dutch Shell bought out 23 properties to build two Shell Ultra City gas stations in Bryanston where Mariette Liefferink lived with her four children. She spent the next seven years campaigning against the development, culminating in Shell withdrawing its application. In 2002, groundWork, an environmental justice nonprofit, invited Liefferink to present the […]
Kirsten Youens and Janice Tooley are the founders of ALL RISE, a non-profit and registered law clinic for climate and environmental justice in KwaZulu-Natal. ALL RISE is one of a few law clinics in South Africa with a specific focus on environmental and climate change law. These committed and experienced attorneys work pro bono for […]
Big-wave surfer and environmental activist Josh Redman has, for the past 18 months, worked tirelessly with teams to intercept plastic in many Durban and Cape Town rivers before it reaches the ocean. Part of this has been establishing The Litterboom Project, which tackles river and ocean pollution by setting up plastic catchment systems. He has […]
Greenpeace is an independent organisation that uses non-violent but creative confrontation to expose environmental injustices. Greenpeace Africa has crosscutting campaigns advocating for a better environment for all. It works to protect biodiversity in all its forms from protecting the ocean and deforestation to ridding Africa of plastic pollution. Air pollution will affect all other climatic […]