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- Growing urgency to take on power to change our world – The Mercury and Pretoria News, 24 December 2020.
- State opposes court action forcing it to improve air quality of Highveld communities – IOL (online), 15 December 2020.
- Engen is ‘still killing us’, says Durban community body after explosion at refinery – Daily Maverick: Our Burning Planet (online), 07 December 2020.
- Smoke has cleared but damage is done after Engen oil refinery explosion – The Citizen (online), 04 December 2020.
- Human Rights Commission takes municipality to court over landfill site – Times Live (online), 02 December 2020.
- Media Statement: SAHRC institutes urgent application against the Msunduzi Municipality for the management, deterioration and current state of the New England Road Landfill Site in Pietermaritzburg SAHRC website, 01 December 2020.
- CER lauds court halting Thabametsi power station plans – Craemer Media Mining Weekly (online), 12 November 2020.
- Fikile Ntshangase – Another Environmental Activist Violently Silenced – Cape Times, The Mercury, Pretoria News, 09 November 2020.
- Another KZN coal mine murder: NGO urges investigation into Fikile Ntshangase murder – BizNews (online), 28 October 2020.
- Gas: South Africa’s next ‘battleground’ – Mail & Guardian (online), 21 October 2020; also The Soweto Gazette (online).
- Ethekwini’s bold new plan to generate its own power and get off Eskom grid – IOL – The Mercury (online), 19 October 2020.
- Turkish floating gas power ships sail into public consultation process after back-door passage to SA freezes up – Daily Maverick (online), 18 October 2020.
- Gas extraction poses serious risk to environment and society – The Mercury and the Pretoria News.
- Xolobeni: Recovering Democracy – Victory for people’s right to information – The Mercury and Pretoria News, 02 October 2020.
- Mining licence for Namibia’s sensitive Kavango region goes underground – Daily Maverick (online), 28 September 2020.
- Exporting Poison to the South – Cape Times, Mercury, & Pretoria News, 23 September 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of this item here.
- Prize Winners Today: Environmental Justice with Bobby Peek – goldmanprize.org (online) – 15 September 2020.
- Total’s Oil and Gas: A Match Made in Hell – Pretoria News, 01 September 2020. You can view a standalone webpage of this item here.
- False Zero — or are the corporations really trying to save the planet? – Daily Maverick (online), 26 August 2020.
- Report: Cancer-causing chemicals lingered in the air days after Msunduzi landfill fire –
IOL (online – Mercury), 18 August 2020. - Climate change must be considered in water licence applications for coal-fired power plants in SA, says Water Tribunal – IOL
(online – The Saturday Star), 13 August 2020. - Landfill Has Become a Permanent Problem for City – The Mercury, 05 August 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of the item here.
- Mantashe in legal wrangle over electricity generation -IOL (online The Star), 31 July 2020.
- GroundWork approaches court over IRP – Craemer Mining Weekly (online), 31 July 2020.
- NGO challenges government in court over its energy blueprint – Business Day (online), 30 July, 2020.
- Msunduzi residents urged to evacuate as dump fire rages on – IOL (Mercury), 22 July 2020.
- Defending Communities and the Environment – The Mercury, 21 July 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of the item here.
- Toxic fumes can cause acute respiratory distress – Capital Newspapers (online), 20 July 2020.
- Protecting Our Health: There is Life After Coal – Mercury, Pretoria News, 07 July 2020. This item is also available to read as a webpage here.
- UN watchdog joins SA air pollution case – New Frame (online), 30 June 2020.
- Reusables are just as safe: The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating single-use plastic pollution – Daily Maverick (online), 24 June 2020.
- A Cheap Shot and Very Bad Attempt at Blame Shifting – Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 10 June 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
- A Fight to Breathe Clean Air – Africa Legal (online), 22 June 2020.
- ‘Deadly Air’ case cites particulates – Saturday Star, 20 June 2020.
- Eskom, Sasol, in pollition court challenge – Mercury, 17 June 2020.
- Highveld’s air quality so bad that UN wants to join SA court case – Citizen (online), 17 June 2020. See also UN joins dirty air fight here.
- Wanted: Socially just transition to sustainable energy – Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 10 June 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
- Infodemic and Our Miseducation – Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 26 May 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
- Drakenstein municipality waste pickers to resume work at Level 3 – IOL (Cape Times), 13 May 2020
- Enjoy the fresh air while it lasts! Lockdown banishes air pollution – Daily Maverick (online), 08 May 2020
- Back to basics is the only sustainable solution – IOL (online), also Mercury and Pretoria News, 29 April 2020. This item is also available to read as a webpage here.
- ‘My children are starving’ – Waste pickers fear starvation and poverty during lockdown – Witness, 15 April 2020.
- The Nation needs more than Band-aids, Mr. President – Mercury & Pretoria News, 14 April 2020.
- Coronavirus Underlines Health Inequalities in Society – Pretoria News, 30 March 2020 (also Mercury and Cape Times).This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
- Mining’s Toxic Legacy for the People of Dannhauser – Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 16 March 2020.This groundWork Opinion Piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
- SA’s just transition from fossil fuels is “all to fight for” – IOL (Saturday Star – online), 13 March 2020.
- Environmental groups appeal Richards Bay gas-to-power plant – Zululand Observer (online), 20 February 2020.
- Africa Under Threat from Plastic Dumping – Cape Times and Pretoria News, 03 February 2020. This groundWork Opinion Piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
