This report on Decarbonising South Africa’s Transport Sector offers a strategic response to the unfolding restructuring of the transport sector, including the unbundling of Transnet and the growing trend toward privatization.
This report on Decarbonising South Africa’s Transport Sector offers a strategic response to the unfolding restructuring of the transport sector, including the unbundling of Transnet and the growing trend toward privatization.
Over 10 million households across South Africa live in what is described as energy poverty, meaning these households lack safe, stable and affordable access to or provision of electricity. This report provides fresh data and analysis on the extent, character and structural causes of energy poverty through examining survey findings in eight sites conducted in communities across the city of eMalahleni.
In the face of formidable obstacles, our commitment to fostering popular resistance and advocating for alternatives towards a Just Transition has remained steadfast. As we present our 2023 Annual Report, it becomes evident that despite the myriad challenges encountered, significant…
Climate change is a pressing issue that requires immediate action. To address this challenge, we need to put forward a public pathway approach towards driving a transition to a low-carbon economy. This approach can overcome deep socio-economic inequalities and create…
The Transnational Institute in collaboration with the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy has published a report aimed at challenging six harmful but influential energy transition myths used to persuade us that the private sector, free markets, cheaper prices and decentralisation…
From 2009, the AIDC saw the necessity of integrating the ecological crisis and especially the climate crisis into its programmes and strategies, as a significant dimension of the overall crisis of civilisation which the world was facing. A major theme…
Join the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 12PM as they host a webinar on Climate Change and the Financing of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) with Andile Zulu, AIDC Energy Democracy Officer as a guest…
Last week, Southern Africa and the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power hosted a two-day #RightToSayNo national workshop attended by over 70 activists from mining communities across the country. They discussed a number of issues under the theme: Building the Just…
On the 6th and 7th of February community activists from South Africa and Swaziland gathered in Cape Town to strategize ways to challenge extractivism and to speak out against the violence inflicted onto human rights defenders and activists by the…
By Andile Zulu | Mail & Guardian | 25 Nov 2022 Who does the government serve? As people across the country struggle to survive, witnessing their country deteriorate because of pervasive economic dysfunction and misgovernance, the lethargy and inaction of the ANC government…
