Locating our struggles for environmental justice and protecting our human rights through forcing mining companies to comply with legal guidelines and to work with communities on the issues concerning our livelihoods within the greater struggle for economic freedom, as poor and rural mine affected communities, is a critical call to action for mobilizing and organizing the youth around understanding the importance of having our voices heard through solidifying our collective power as communities as we’re burdened with the responsibility to carry the baton forward towards realizing socio-economic justice in our lifetime and protecting our homes.
Posts published in “Environment”
It’s early December yet the landscape on the farms in Onverwacht, near Polokwane in Limpopo, is a dull brown and dry. Red dust rises into…
Nations at COP28 in Dubai approved earlier on Wednesday a roadmap for “transitioning away from fossil fuels” – a first for a UN climate conference…
It is early morning, and Michael Lokuru Kuri is taking his cattle out to graze as he does every day when the sun rises, to…
A recent report by the department in January this year revealed that over 65,940 learners from 210 schools rely exclusively on pit toilets.
A 2019 precedent setting high court ruling compelled municipalities to provide farm dwellers with clean drinking water and provide access to dignified sanitation. However very little has changed for some farm residents.
Residents in several areas of Limpopo where water shortages have been severe say their villages have been without water for years, and how their communities share water with domestic animals, endangering human health and well-being.
“We must stop taking water for granted,” Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu warned at the recent two-day Rome Water Dialogue, the…
IN Mpumalanga, a South African province thriving on coal, Vincent Mathole’s livelihood and that of many others, is in a delicate balance as the country…