March For System Change

On 24th September 2022, under the banner of March For System Change, youth, civil society and concerned citizens from across Cape Town and Surrounding towns and settlements came together to march from Hanover Street to Cape Town Parliament on Heritage Day!    The action was led by the youth-led African Climate Alliance in [...]

By |2022-10-27T07:46:42+02:00October 27th, 2022|

PRESS RELEASE: Khayelitsha Youth Play With Solar 2021

MEDIA RELEASE: 07 October 2021 Young Climate Activists from Khayelitsha embark on ‘Playing With Solar’ programme following their Climate Action outside Parliament (Cape Town) last week and the Build Up to COP26.   On Saturday, 9 October 2021, young climate activists from Khayelitsha, hot off the heels from the 24th September 2021 Parliament (Cape Town) [...]

By |2021-10-07T13:28:25+02:00October 7th, 2021|

 ENERGISING OUR FUTURE – TOGETHER

TACKLING ENERGY POVERTY AND IMPROVING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE WESTERN CAPE South Africa needs to invest time and resources to move towards a just energy transition (JET). In Project 90’s latest research report we investigated what a JET means for the Western Cape. The province has shown political will to shift to low carbon energy [...]

By |2020-12-16T11:35:49+02:00December 16th, 2020|

Uprooting Injustice

The history of police and military brutality in South Africa, especially the death of Collins Khosa and others more recently; as well as the recent Black Lives Matter protests in The United States of America -we should be reminded of the unnecessary and unconstitutional brutality that black people face all the time. It does not [...]

By |2021-07-05T11:57:50+02:00June 4th, 2020|

YouLead Warriors To Graduate in Award Ceremony in Khayelitsha

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Cape Town)   Ayakha Melithafa, along with her fellow YouLead Warriors, will celebrate the culmination of their year of intensive climate change literacy and skills development course - The YouLead Initiative 2019 -  spearheaded by local NGO Project 90 by 2030. (Watch the YouLead movie)   Ayakha Melithafa is one of 16 young [...]

By |2019-10-25T13:04:54+02:00October 25th, 2019|

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S TIME TO STAND WITH OUR YOUTH

On 20 September 2019, the youth of Cape Town will take to the streets for the third time this year to protest the South African Government’s lack of action on our climate emergency: South Africa is warming at a rate nearly double the global average. Learners from around 50 schools across the city, part of [...]

By |2019-08-27T15:58:33+02:00August 27th, 2019|
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