What can young people do when they see pollution affecting the river in their community? Quite a lot – especially when they have the opportunity to learn, investigate and take action together. Through the City
South Africa is engaged in an important debate about the future of social protection. As poverty deepens, unemployment remains stubbornly high, inequality continues to widen and climate change vulnerabilities increase, calls for a Universal Basic
Why Agroecology Is the Future of Water Justice South Africa is the 30th most water-scarce country in the world and yet, our land-use choices place industrial production ahead of the people and ecosystems that depend
There was a Recycling Fashion Show at Mfuleni Technical Academy hosted by the learners in the Environmental School on the 1st of November 2024. The Recycling Fashion Show was done to create awareness on the
by the Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) The water crisis is something that civil society have been warning government about for decades and much like the electricity crisis, we do not see government resolving the issue
BY December Ndhlovu The Mpumalanga Water Caucus (MPWC) has been given an opportunity to temporarily employ 50 people in Bushbuckridge to do river cleaning, establish an agroecology farm and land restoration activities through the Social
BY December Ndhlovu In Mpumalanga, we are working with the Ten Trees project, an initiative started by Project Biome. Project Biome refers to itself as a connecting tissue of the organizations that work in the
By Anne Plaatjies-Hanase The twenty-first session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 21) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) took place at the Silk Road
By Nick Hamer In 2023 EMG participated in a process with other Southern Hemisphere civil society organisations to advocate for developing world concerns being centered in Just Transition implementation. The process was facilited by Solidar,
BY Apiwe Mdunyelwa 7 December 2023 In a collaborative effort, six environmental club learners, three from the School of Arts – Fairdale 2 High School and three from Bardale High, embarked on a transformative art
