Press Release: #MANDELA 100
17 July 2018
Contact: Lerato Ngakane, 350Africa.org Communications Coordinator, +27 81 464 9726, Lerato.Ngakane@350.org
As Mandela turns 100, South Africans call on Ramaphosa to ditch coal and approve modern energy policy to fulfil his legacy
JOHANNESBURG
350Africa urges Nedbank to do the right thing and make a clean break from coal
Nedbank has indicated their intention to ‘Make Things Happen’ by committing to not provide project financing for new coal fired power stations in Africa. The bank’s 2017 Sustainability Report, in a commitment to a clean energy
Protection of South Africa’s water resources, means not a cent more should be invested in the country’s water guzzling coal sector.
Higher temperatures and diminished rainfall, which experts have attributed to climate change are wreaking havoc across many of South Africa’s provinces. The drought is the most extreme since the start of the 20th century and there
What water scarcity has meant for us
When Cape Town announced that it would be turning off the taps due to the severe drought, we asked our supporters in Cape Town how they had been affected. We then took those stories and sent
The water frontier
I’m scared of climate change. If our recent conversations with supporters about water are anything to go by, I’m not the only one.
The drought in Cape Town made headlines recently when “Day Zero” was announced