In our first solar site visit of 2024, we had the privilege of joining forces with the YouLead 2024 Warriors at UCT. The purpose? To introduce them to the fundamental components and terminology essential for building solar panels and systems. This journey marks their initiation into hands-on solar panels construction, guided by experts from UCT [...]
On Friday the 8th September 2023, the team from Woman on Farms Project organised for over 200 women farm workers to march to the Bayer office in Paarl to handover a Memorandum to the Bayer CEO. The Memorandum demanding an end to the double standards in the international trade of pesticides, and an [...]
Source: Daily Maverick-Our Burning Planet Title: Climate change shifting the goalposts for global sport By Julia Evans (15 February 2020) The Beijing Winter Games have made history by being held on 100% artificial snow. The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar has temperature-controlled stadium, even if temperatures reach 30 degrees and 40 degrees the [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: 16 February 2022 Communities Mobilise for National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) to be Transparent Following illegal Suspension of Civil Society Board Representative Peter Becker Following the illegal suspension of the civil society representative on the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) Mr. Peter Becker by Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, communities and civil society organisations [...]
On Monday, 17 January 2022, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) held online public hearings for comment on ESKOM’s Annual application for an electricity tariff increase. The application for the 20.5% increase is one that is extremely worrying and controversial, as it would disproportionately affect Low-Income Households and Individuals. This massive increase would [...]
On 23 October 2021, African Climate Alliance in collaboration with Project 90 by 2030, hosted an open space dialogue, to bring young people between the ages of 14 and 35 to discuss the important question: what does climate justice look like in South Africa ahead of COP26? A total of 20 participants (excluding facilitators) gathered [...]
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) [...]
Gas investment and Powership Briefing There has been a lot of information circulated about the #Karpowerships , because of this, last month we put together a short briefing note to cover some of the Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme (RMI4P) issues too, and better alternatives. This briefing note also covers the message about treating natural gas [...]
Mobilising Support For Project 90 - We need to cover costs for 3 months to continue inspiring and mobilising society towards a sustainably developed and equitable low-carbon future. About The Project: Entering 2020, Project 90 by 2030 was celebrating a record number of 21 YouLead Initiative participants receiving their Bronze President’s Award and one young [...]
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 [...]
