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Building resilience within and beyond our Covid world: Thoughts from the Karoo FLEAT community
We hosted our second Karoo Faith Leaders Environmental Training (Karoo FLEAT) workshop on 23rd and 24th June. This time around, the group of faith lea...
Zondo Commission responds to CSWG Letter
On 27 May 2020, Civil Society Working Group on State Capture (CSWG) wrote a letter to Deputy Chief Justice (DCJ) Raymond Zondo to enquire about the pr...
Environmental Watchdogs Warn Mantashe, “Immediate Commencement Of Nuclear Procurement Unlawful!”
In a recent urgent letter (sent on 6 June 2020) to the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, environmental justice organisations Earth...
The Civil Society Working Group's letter to the Zondo Commission
The Civil Society Working Group on State Capture CSWG Secretariat Open Secrets Second Floor Community House 41 Salt River Road Cape Town 7925 T: +27 2...
Our faiths call on us to care, protect and love this incredible planet of abundant life
By Bishop Geoff Davies For many years, faith communities, scientists and environmentalists have been warning political, and business leaders about the...
Job Opening: Climate Justice Coordinator
Applications Closed Job Opening: Climate Justice Coordinator The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) is seeking to app...
A New Africa is Possible!
African Climate Justice Groups’ Statement on COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is perhaps the biggest global event in recent decades. The crisis is highl...
A Programme of Action in the Time of Covid-19
We, as civic organisations, trade unions, organisations of informal workers, faith-based organisations and community structures in South Africa, call...
Faith, hope and love in a time of COVID-19
By Kate Davies The unfolding of the Covid 19 pandemic is a tragedy of global proportions, bringing with it an immeasurable breadth and depth of human...
To President Ramaphosa: Call Minister Mantashe to account so that we can have a future
By Bishop Geoff Davies We write now to urge you to respond in the same decisive manner as you have in confronting the coronavirus threat to the great...
The road we've travelled so far
In 2016, the South African Poultry Association reported that 80 million hens produced eggs – 96.4% in cages and 3.6% in barns and free-range systems....
Southern Africa – Feeling the Effects of the Climate Crisis
By Robyn Bowden “More than 11-million people are now experiencing crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity” due to the “deepening drought and cli...