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 [...]
South African youth to lead intergenerational global climate action on 25th March, calling for “people not profit” in the wake of Human Rights Day, as the domestic environmental justice movement picks up greater momentum. On 25th March 2022, South African youth and civil society will once again take [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
