The UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Africa, supported by the Royal African Society and Oxfam, is undertaking a new parliamentary policy inquiry into UK-African Partnerships and Just Energy Transitions. groundWork made a submission to the group relating on-the-ground experiences of the JT in South Africa. Drawing heavily from the groundWork report 2022: Contested Transitions, the submission provides in-detail narration of the current policy process in the country. It addresses the historic and current power relations, the capture of the JET-IP by big business, the PCC’s role, and the unjust transition we are witnessing in towns across South Africa.
Landmark Win for Protected Areas and People: Mabola Protected Environment Saved from Coal Mining
On Thursday 18 July 2024, the Mbombela High Court overturned the 2021 decision by former Mpumalanga MEC responsible for Environmental Affairs, MEC Vusi Shongwe, to exclude four properties from the Mabola Protected Environment. This ruling blocks the development of a...