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Announcing “Eskom Transformed”: The Case for a Big Eskom in the Age of Austerity

Announcing “Eskom Transformed”: The Case for a Big Eskom in the Age of Austerity Eskom Research Reference Group | Amandla Online | 24 June, 2020 For most of the Ramaphosa presidency, the struggle over the future of the nation’s economy

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Pandemic gives us a last chance to avert climate – and social – catastrophe

Pandemic gives us a last chance to avert climate – and social – catastrophe Bruce Baigrie | Mail and Guardian |16 Apr 2020 Just a few months ago headlines began to emerge of a novel coronavirus rapidly infecting people in

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Their Just Transition and ours

Their Just Transition and ours by Zwelinzima Vavi | Amandla! Issue No. 66 | October 2019 This is a slightly edited version of an input on the Just Transition to the School of Labour and Urban Studies, City University of

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System Change not Climate Change Colloquium

System Change not Climate Change Colloquium Join us at the Isivivana Centre on Thursday the 26th for practical inputs on resisting the climate crisis. System Change not Climate Change is part of the African Climate Alliance’s week of positive climate action.

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The Larger Struggle: Mitigating Capitalism

The Larger Struggle: Mitigating Capitalism Hans Baer |Climate and Capitalism | 11 July, 2019 The climate movement both at the international level and within specific countries is quite disparate, meriting a distinction between climate activists per se and climate justice activists. Representatives

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A different Eskom: Achieving a just energy transition for South Africa

A different Eskom: Achieving a just energy transition for South Africa Sandra van Niekerk | DailyMaverick | 04 July, 2019 The knee-jerk reaction of both government and many commentators to the crisis of Eskom has been to tout unbundling as the major solution

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What ever happened to the Energy Transition?

What ever happened to the Energy Transition? John Treat | Amandla 64 | June 2019 Anyone trying to understand what’s happening with the world’s energy systems right now can be forgiven if they are confused. On one hand, most people

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Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism.

Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff | Original Source: The Guardian | 18 March, 2019 Climate change activism is increasingly the domain of the young, such as 16-year-old Greta Thunberg,

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The Student Strike to Save the Climate Will Leave a Mark

The Student Strike to Save the Climate Will Leave a Mark Piero Bevilacqua | Original Source: Il Manifesto | 27  March, 2019   The event taking place today, the world’s first Global Climate Strike for the Future, is destined to

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“Act on the Climate Crisis to Save our People and the Planet” – African Women’s Movements and Women-led organisations

Act on the Climate Crisis! Save our People and the Planet! 25 March, 2019 African women’s movements, movements and women-led organisations call on our governments, the United Nations, and African Union to act on the climate crisis to save our

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