Action

Our action programme focuses on on-the-ground actions calling for climate mitigation, adaptation and justice. This includes the use of mechanisms such as alliances and coalitions, coalition-based mobilisations and protests, as well as litigation.

2022

#ThePeoplesTribunal

As part of our work with Climate Justice Coalition we co-organised a People's Tribunal, placing the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on trial for the harm and destruction that's resulted from the departments failure to transform and prioritise a sustainable energy system for South Africa.

Global Climate Strike #PeopleNotProfit

On 25th March 2022, South African youth and civil society gathered in front of Cape Town Parliament calling for climate and socio-environmental justice under the theme of #PeopleNotProfit.

#CancelCoal Court Case

Updates of the ongoing court case against Minister Gwede Mantashe and Nersa

2021

#UPROOTTHEDMRE NATIONAL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE

From the 22nd to the 27th of September, hundreds of people representing dozens of civil society organisations marched to Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) offices, in every province across the country, under the banner #UprootTheDMRE.

CAPE TOWN GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE: #UPROOTTHEDMRE #UPROOTTHESYSTEM

Climate activists gather to call for aggressive steps against the climate crisis. Most of the crowd was comprised of young people and schoolchildren who called for a future free of fossil fuels. (Photo: James Granelli)

#CANCELCOAL : OUR FUTURE NOW

A letter of demand from environmental and climate justice groups calls on Minister Mantashe and NERSA to abandon plans to develop 1 500 MW of new coal-fired electricity or face legal action.

2020

CLIMATE JUSTICE COALITION MEMBERSHIP

If we are to overcome the power of polluters and politicians blocking action on climate justice, it is going to take all of us fighting together. That is why the Climate Justice Coalition (CJC) is coming together to build a deeper, stronger, and more powerful movement.

ENDORSEMENT OF THE CLIMATE JUSTICE CHARTER

The Climate Justice Charter emerges out of six years of campaigning, during the worst drought in South Africa’s history, by the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre.

GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION 2020: #THEFUTUREISNOW

On the 25th of September 2020 Fridays for Future called for a Global Day of Climate Action. In light of this African Climate Alliance held three simultaneous protests calling for systems change now. Whilst we need to call for climate action, this must include an end to the social injustices that intersect with climate and environmental crises. We need to build a stronger, more informed base for climate mobilizations in communities, and to push for the call for a Just Transition and a Just Recovery. View the event coverage on SABC here.

2019

SEPTEMBER YOUTH CLIMATE PROTEST

Climate Emergency: It’s Time To Stand With The Kids On 20 September, the youth of Cape Town will take to the streets for the third time this year to protest the SA Government’s lack of action on the climate emergency: South Africa is warming at a rate nearly double the global average. Learners from around 50 schools across the city mobilised by the African Climate Alliance will be joining millions of their peers in over 150 countries around the world for the Global Strike on Friday 20th ahead of the important UN Climate Summit in New York on Monday 23 September.

MARCH YOUTH CLIMATE PROTEST

The #ClimateStrikeCapeTown took place on Friday 15th March 2019 from 12h00-15h00. A crowd of 2000 people (mostly youth) from across the city gathered in front of Parliament to protest against government inaction on climate change. The demonstration included speeches from school leaders and a number of musical and dance performances.

JUNE YOUTH DAY CLIMATE PROTEST

The second major climate protest in Cape Town took place on 14th June 2019 from 12-3pm. Hundreds of youth gathered outside of Parliament from noon on the last day of term to picket and prepare to march to the Grand Parade where a stage had been set up for speeches and a handover of a memorandum of demands to ministers.