This project/campaign is a grassroots-driven initiative rooted in social and environmental justice, sustainable development, mobilizing and empowering affected and marginalised communities, to confront harmful projects, advocate for themselves, and champion energy alternatives that protect ecosystems and secure long-term community well-being.
Energy democracy is shifting power and ownership of renewable and sustainable energy systems to communities, ensuring equitable access, local control over renewable resources, and participatory decision-making in the transition to a sustainable future.
SDCEA supports the implementation of the WEATHER Project (Warning system for Extreme weather events, Awareness Technology for Healthcare, Equitable delivery, and Resilience), a multi-institutional initiative led by the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The project aims to reduce the health impacts of extreme weather [...]
(This is the $200 million loan in which last May the BRICS Bank financed 40% of yet another wicked Transnet deal - with no community consultation. Hence no one told the Sandton branch banksters who they were dealing with, until late last year a whistleblower went to an Irish private investigator with great media cred. [...]
(Amongst 1.4 million children across the world who did a FridaysForFuture protest on May 24, KwaZulu-Natal kids were out in an unusual space, in all Durban's diversity and creativity. In my 15 years witnessing protests in this city, this had the most accurate representivity of the city in race, class, gender and generational terms. Though [...]
Dissent over oasis park project The project has raised questions for the men, who believe unless satisfactorily answered, it should be halted. January 11, 2019 THE proposed oasis development in the Bluff valley, known as Van Riebeeck Park, has raised concerns from Bluff Ratepayers Association chairman Ivor Alyward and former councillor and Bluff historian Duncan [...]
