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SWC Newsletter – November 2006
While we await the much delayed and anticipated findings of the Draft Scoping Report for the new N2 EIA (originally we were told due out mid September –but now who knows when?) SWC has been busy with much behind the scenes activity.
01 Nov 2006
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Launch of SAFCEI: Prof Wangari Maathai
Unsurprisingly Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai is now listed among the worlds 100 most powerful women. Recently she spent a whirlwind week in South Africa, inspiring her growing following, and giving us another reason to be proudly African. In celebration of Nelson Mandela’s 87th birthday, she gave the third Nelson Mandela Foundation lecture in Johannesburg. Besides our beloved ‘Madiba’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former US President Bill Clinton were in attendance and sat in awe of her as she expertly raised the collective consciousness of African civil society several notches, in her speech - broadcasted live throughout Anglophone Africa. But despite all the greatness in attendance the mood was one of unbelievable modesty and humility. Her following in South Africa has been growing ever since she spoke at the Wilderness Foundation Conference back in 2002 in Port Elizabeth. Back then, with due sensitivity to the highly diverse religious, ideological and material interests that animate environmentalists, she had khaki clad conservationists laughing with new age mystics at her characterisation of the human predicament on the planet. “We need to remember that, according to the book of Genesis, the human species was only created on the sixth day. Yet, from the arrogant way we humans treat the earth you would think we were created first! Remember, if God had created us first, we would have all been dead by Tuesday afternoon!”
21 Sep 2005
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Launch of SAFCEI: Prof Wangari Maathai Launches Safcei
Representatives from all major faith communities learned the correct way of planting a tree from Nobel Peace Laureate and Kenyan Deputy Minister of Environment, Prof Wangari Maathai at the Delta Environmental Centre, Johannesburg this week.
21 Sep 2005
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Special report on the South African Faith Communities' Environment Conference
South African Faith groups are unanimously calling for the establishment and development of a Faith Communities’ Environment Institute that will promote the care and nurturing of all of God’s Creation.
01 Apr 2005
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We, the delegates to the South African Council of Churches Environment Conference meeting at Hartbeespoort, March 14-17, 2005, agree that nation-wide and global environmental degradation is One of the most urgent moral concerns of our century.
17 Mar 2005
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