On 18 and 19 November 2024, community members and civil society organisations from across The Cape Flats and broader City of Cape Town will have their voices and concerns heard at the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) public hearings on Eskom‘s Sixth Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD 6) Revenue Application for Financial years [...]
We would like to officially welcome to the #Project90 team Siyabulela Vavi ! He is our new Programme Assistant for our Community Partnership Programme. With him he brings a keen new eye and great experience, we cannot wait to see the amazing things to come! We are so happy to have you on board. Community Programme [...]
Covid19 and The Connectivity Divide In the current climate that we find ourselves in, we see just how vulnerable our system truly is. The nationwide lockdown - set by President Cyril Ramaphosa in an attempt to flatten the curve of those affected and infected by the COVID-19 pandemic - has left us to learn to [...]
Dear partners and friends of Project 90 by 2030, The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, and the inevitable disruption to our lives and work, has encouraged us to rethink our work priorities, our ways of working and the role we play in halting the spread of the virus. We are also very [...]
Mismanagement, aging and problematic coal infrastructure along with a stalled renewable energy (RE) programme have fuelled regular power cuts since 2007. According to the new chief executive officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter, Eskom has set itself a target of 18 months to end the outages and improve the maintenance programme. The Council for Scientific and [...]
With less than a month to prepare for what may be the biggest global climate strike action to date – scheduled for Friday 20 September – 350 Africa, Project 90 by 2030 and HoneyBush Communications will host a first-ever Youth Artivism Workshop, at Community House in Salt River on 24 August from 9am – 4pm. [...]
SOUTH AFRICANS NEED AN ENVIRO-CONSCIOUS GOVERNMENT On Thursday 25 April, a coalition of environmental and social justice groups and members of the public interrogated political parties – represented by Faiez Jacobs (ANC); Farouk Cassim (COPE); Beverley Schafer (DA); Jeremy Acton (Dagga Party); Jason Sole (Green Party); Shaheed Mahomed (Socialist Workers Party); and Ncedisa Mpemnyama (BLF) – in [...]
Thando speaks SMART Citizens in Action It has been a very exciting few months in Community Partnership Programme since the second iteration of the SMART Citizens In Action project has kicked off. Community members who had all but believed that they do not have the skills and tools needed to improve their material conditions are [...]
Project 90 by 2030's #JustEnergyTransition 2018 speaker, Karien Erasmus - Climate Change Advisor to Promethium Carbon - delivers a presentation on "Renewable Energy Projects on Mine-Impacted Land". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSZjNAVxC4&t=5s Mine land rehabilitation offers an opportunity in combining energy generation, soil restoration and social upliftment. This study focused on integrating Renewable Energy generation, restoration of mine-impacted [...]
A just energy transition (JET), fits within a global discourse on wider just transitions. These cover how stakeholders (particularly workers) and the economy are affected by a shift to more environmentally sustainable and socially equitable practices. A JET, as described in this report, can be defined in several ways. In the broadest terms, it is [...]
