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Don’t burn waste, pay waste pickers! – Waste pickers protest against a planned incinerator in Johannesburg and demand payment by waste producers from levies.
Media Release 06 August 2024 Media enquiries: Tsepang Molefe, , +27 74 405 1257 Waste pickers protest against a planned...
Climate Change Act Signed into Law. But not yet operational.
On 23 July 2024, President Ramaphosa signed the highly anticipated Climate Change Act into law. This pivotal legislation is designed to...
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,...
Samson Mokoena and the struggle for a clean environment in the Vaal
Samson Mokoena showing tar emerging from sampling boreholes on his hands after a VEJA monitoring exercise. Photo by James Oatway supplied by...
Remembering Samson: A tribute to the life of Samson Mokoena (2 August 1976 – 28 June 2024)
A tribute to the life of Samson Mokoena (2 August 1976 – 28 June 2024) by Bobby Peek A couple of weeks before the World Summit on...
Tribute to Samson Mokoena: Thorn in the side of ArcelorMittal
1 July 2021 Tribute to Samson Mokoena: Thorn in the side of ArcelorMittal Compiled by Tsepang Molefe and Dorothy Brislin of groundWork ...
Protesters over Tendele Coal Mine land grab threatened with violence – KwaZulu-Natal
For Immediate Release 06 June 2024 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Tension is brewing in Mtubatuba in the northern part of KwaZulu-Natal where...
Our Vulnerability is not overstated! African cities are underwater again
In March 2024, we issued a statement following the devastating floods in Mozambique two weeks after being hit by Tropical Storm Filipo. Well,...








