recent updates
Some of the general activities and highlights that we’ve been up to recently.
We had a stall at this year's Open Book Festival 2025, where we connected with new faces and received over 100 sign ups for our pledges!
Two of our campaigners were asked to be mentors to a group of young Kenyan climate activists, as part of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project.
Moments from our 2025 Annual General Meeting and 10th birthday celebrations, which we hosted at The Homecoming Centre.
Our interns talking to interested university students about how to get involved with our work.
Thameena Dhansay, our Fossil Ad Ban campaigner, speaking about why fighting against fossil fuel companies should be a core demand of decolonisation movements at our Palestine, Planet and Our People event in August 2024. Click on the image above to watch snippets from the event by one of our collaborators, Dismantle the Ivory Tower. Photograph by Tam Wilson (Itchy Digital)
Our Divestment campaign team lead, Sandrine, attended the Climate Solutions Forum 2025 in Cape Town.
David Le Page, our director-coordinator, speaking at the Stilfontein Solidarity Picket outside the 2025 Mining Indaba, with SAFCEI, African Climate Alliance, Save our Sacred Lands and other NGOs. Click on the image to read Ground Up’s article about the picket.
In July 2024, we hosted a discussion about the current genocide in Gaza and the environmental effects, with esteemed panelists Nina Lakhani (The Guardian), Fadi Quran (AVAAZ), and Tara Nair van Ryneveld (SAFCEI). Click on the image to find notes from our discussion.
Some of our team members painting placards and banners for protest action.
One of our Management Committee members, Dean Bhebhe, speaking at the Stop African Energy Week protest in 2024.
Some of our campaigners at the African Climate Reality Project Leadership Training in March 2025.
David Le Page speaking on a panel titled ‘A press for the planet: Journalism in the face of the environmental crisis' for World Press Freedom Day 2024 at Stellenbosch University.
Sandrine was invited to speak at the Africa Energy Week protest against false energy solutions that protect profit over our people.
Lazola, campaign coordinator for our Fossil Ad Ban campaign, spoke at the Africa Climate Finance Watch session in Ethiopia.