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) [...]
Every year youth day comes around it’s important to connect with the past and why we celebrate it. More than 20,000 youth in 1976 marched in Soweto, Johannesburg, where sadly hundreds lost their lives for standing up for their rights against the apartheid government. Forty four years on it marks a day to think about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Youth March for Climate Justice ahead of Youth Day in Cape Town Under the banner of the African Climate Alliance (@ACA_YOUTH), South African school children will be protesting again on Friday 14th June, ahead of Youth Day, asking adults and leaders to take steps to protect their future from climate and ecological breakdown. In early [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
