Eskom's debt gap How do we solve Eskom debt – the big SONA gap Nobody said running a country was easy. Or if they did, it could not be a serious reflection on what those at the helm of South Africa currently face. Even making the annual stock-take speech is delayed by over an hour [...]
South Africa’s most prominent youth climate activist, Ayakha Melithafa along with fellow YouLead Warriors celebrated the completion of their year-long YouLead program at an event in Khayelithsa on the 26 October 2019. The YouLead Initiative is a youth project run by local environmental justice NPO Project 90 by 2030. For the past 9 months, fifteen 'warriors' from 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Playing with Solar 2019 Project 90 by 2030's youth development initiative - YouLead - is a structured skills development program for 40 (per year) Khayelitsha-based youngsters between the ages of 15-24, who learn about environmental stewardship through focused activities designed to make learning fun. One such component is "Playing with Solar", where the YouLead Warriors [...]
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 [...]
Political Party Manifesto Debate at Community House, 25 April 2019 Election 2019 results show that the African National Congress (ANC) has maintained its position as the country’s governing party despite the party’s lack of focus on the critical issues of our time – namely climate change and environmental degradation – in their [...]
The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement programme - otherwise known as the REI4P - is a programme developed to encourage private investment to help develop the renewable energy sector within South Africa. After 4 bidding rounds and over R200 billion invested in the programme (which has added 6 323MW of renewable power to South Africa’s grid [...]
