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 [...]
From 25 September to 1st October 2022, youth gathered at The Climate Justice Camp held by Greenpeace International took place in Nabeul, Tunisa. New friends were made and the old ones reunited. The camp was mainly to build solidarity and also show that there’s a lot that this climate justice movement can offer. There were [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of the YouLead Initiative, our YouLead Warriors learn about the basics of solar technology ("Playing with Solar"); hiking in nature; community service and they get to partake in fun sports activities - such as Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact team sport that is played on a field that looks a lot [...]
Climate change is enormously complex, and yet quite simple. Amidst the doom and gloom there is also hope, and each of us have a part to play in shaping the future. Short of nuclear war, climate change will be the greatest challenge to face human civilisation with mass extinction of earth's species' - including us [...]
