groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa

🌍 *Webinar | Cradle to Grave: Confronting Fossil Fuels and Advancing Health Justice in Africa*

Meet the Cradle to Grave panellists and moderator Azeeza Rangunwala!

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Communities turned lived experience into evidence, securing a ban on Terbufos, demanding clean air, and stepping into health governance spaces.
Health is not negotiable. Support community-led action for clean air, safe food, and justice.

#CleanAir #CancelCoal #EnironmentalJustice #HealthJustice

At the Socially Owned Renewable Energy Convening, unions, researchers, and activists co-created strategies for community-led renewable energy.
Power belongs to the people. Dema a just, equitable energy transition.

#EnergyDemocracy #RenewableEnergy #CommunityPower #JustTransition #ClimateJustice

Community-led solutions like the Durban Zero Waste Project diverted 400 tons of organic waste in one year, showing zero waste is practical and transformative.
Expand toxic waste. Expand zero waste. Support policies that protect people, not polluters.

#ZeroWaste #CommunitiesDrivingChange

Just Transition Network Hosted the first-ever Environmental Justice School in French, uniting activists from nine countries to build skills for people-centred transitions rooted in dignity, health, and community power.
📖 gW December Newsletter: groundwork.org.za/december-2025/

#EnvironmentalJustice

Here is a close look at groundWork's Just Transition and Coal Campaign highlights from 2025.

Link to our 2025 December Newsletter: groundwork.org.za/december-2025/

A closer look at the Communications Campaign highlight from 2025.

4 years ago, champion environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach was sentenced to 5 years in prison in Vietnam. We urge Vietnam’s leaders free him this lunar new year.
#StandWithBach
www.internationalrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2026/01/Solidarity-Statement-DDB-24-January-Anniversary.pdf

MEPs will be in Strasbourg this week to discuss the EU-South Africa #CTIP and what it means for #greenhydrogen and the impact on local communities.

This op-ed from campaigner @belenbalanya.bsky.social and @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley is essential reading for every MEP taking part.

2/2 The Parliament's Delegation to South Africa 🇿🇦 will follow the 🎥 with a hearing on the #CTIP + #greenhydrogen, featuring the DG TRADE + @groundworksa.bsky.social

Tomorrow marks the first time the voices of 🇿🇦's impacted communities are heard by EU decision makers - but definitely not the last 📢✊🏼

Government buys a broken oil refinery while global companies simply walk away. What motives lie behind the wall of silence? That's #CarteBlanche this Sunday at 7pm on M-Net channel 101, and DStv Stream. #SouthAfrica #News @groundworksa.bsky.social @opensecrets.org.za

💥 IMPACT 💥 Oxpeckers associate Thabo Molelekwa is currently in Durban with @groundworksa.bsky.social to unpack socially owned renewable energy. Back in July, we visited a living example of this in the Eastern Cape, called the SalTuba Cooperative. Read all about its impact here: bit.ly/4odp4Tt

David Hallowes, author of the @groundworksa.bsky.social Reports, shares his impression on All In. Read more book impressions and reviews as well as other articles and other content on a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse in all-in.now

Check out our Just Transition and Coal Campaign highlight from 2025.

Link to our 2025 December Newsletter:
lnkd.in/dfe_ujmP
featuring the People's Hearing for Human Rights Defenders

We’re excited to share our 2025 Highlights - what a year!

Thanks to partners, collaborators, allies and Friends of the Earth for walking with us.

A joyous and peaceful year end for all.

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@foeint.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org

Bhopal India 3/12/1984
Toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide pesticide plant
1000s died
100s of 1000s live with illness, contaminated water, intergenerational harm.
41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free
Survivors do not
Bhopal, UPL Chemical harm is not accidental
#EnvironmentalJustice

New investigation by @Public Eye reveals shocking double standards by Nestlé.

Read more here: groundwork.org.za/sugar-scanda...

#ProtectOurChildren #NestléDoubleStandards #FoodJusticeSA #HealthyKidsSA #CorporateAccountability

As COP30 begins in Belem, do you remember what you were doing on this fateful day of 10 November in 1995 when Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni colleagues were hanged for campaigning nonviolently against the oil company Shell - for defending their most basic rights?

YouTube video by groundWork SA Our Light, Our Power

"Our Light, Our Power" docci on groundbreaking project places advocacy for a just transition at the heart of SA social movements. Communities are shaping a renewable energy future rooted in justice. VEM ABM SDCEA lead the way to energy democracy.
#JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy
youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE

Victory for the climate: Total has just been convicted of greenwashing!

On the eve of COP30, this decision sets a major legal precedent against climate disinformation from oil majors.

Our press release 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...

Today is #GlobalFertilizerDay, but here’s the truth:
Chemical fertilizers poison our food, pollute water & air, while tying global food prices to fossil fuel markets. A few corporations profit. The rest of us pay the price
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay #FertilizerDay #FoodJustice

VACANCY! Action Appointments is recruiting a Human Resources Officer for groundWork, based in Durban, SA
info link:
www.actionappointments.co.za/.../human-re....
#Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban

17 September 2025: Civil society organisations welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, that has denied Eskom authorisation to build a 3000MW gas-to-power plant in Richards Bay.

SDCEA and groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.

Fossil fuels drive climate change, they damage human health, destabilize communities, and put our future at risk - from cradle to grave.
Every organ, every body

Read: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr...
#CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction

Principles for a Rapid, Equitable & Just Transition to Renewable Energy Systems:

Demand: #EnergyDemocracy
Reject: #FalseSolutions

Get the Principles here:
En: drive.google.com/file/d/15Zvr...
Fr: drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEB...
Por: drive.google.com/file/d/1A6ZK...

#RenewablesWithJustice

Aerial view of Porth Nolloth in the Northern Cape, South Africa, and the words: Boegoebaai: interconnected fights against oil, gas an green hdyrogen. At the top left corner, a picture in picture of a map showing Boegoebaai. At the bottom, the logo of Corporate Europe Observatory and the link www.corporateeurope.org

This is also true for #greenhydrogen

A year ago CEO visited 🇿🇦, where ​​petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling green H2 export project w/ Port of Rotterdam around Boegoebaai.

Check what communities had to say
www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...
@groundworksa.bsky.social‬

The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed EU politicians are presenting green hydrogen as a win-win fuel, claiming it will lead to low-carbon industrialisation in the Global South while decarbonising economies in Europe. The reality on the gr...

How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen?

Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

At the 9th Maputo Workshop on corporate impunity and human rights with JA! / FoE Mozambique and @groundworksa.bsky.social / FoE South Africa

We continue to internationalise the struggle to #StopCorporateImpunity, in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of corporate power

Lors du 9e atelier de Maputo avec JA ! / AT Mozambique et @groundworksa.bsky.social / AT Afrique du Sud

Nous continuons à internationaliser la lutte pour mettre fin à l'impunité des multinationales, en solidarité avec les communautés affectées par le pouvoir des multinationales

Day 5 IX Maputo Workshop on Corporate Impunity and Human Rights: African voices gathered to rethink democracy embracing Pan-Africanist alternatives to capitalism. Powerful voices on community resistance, feminist leadership, land sovereignty and confronting extractivism to reclaim Africa’s future.