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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...

Hotel Verde to go cage-free by 2025

After running a week-long public campaign, Hotel Verde, with operations in Cape Town and Zanzibar, has committed to sourcing 100% cage-free eggs throu...

FLEAT Karoo 2019

FLEAT Karoo group at the Nqweba Dam, Graaff-Reinet on 20 November 2019. Photo credit: Zainab Adams. We hosted our first Karoo Faith Leader Environme...

Faith Leader Energy Programme: Workshop 2

We hosted our second Faith Leader Energy Programme workshop on 28th and 29th November at the Shalimar Gardens Hotel in Cape Town. The group of faith...

Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change for COP 25 Madrid, 2019

Faith communities demand climate justice “If we should be true to our faith, we cannot be quiet when we see what is happening,” reads the declaration...

COP 25: Letter to the President of South Africa, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy

Click here to download our letter addressed to The President, the Honourable Cyril Ramaphosa; Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ho...

Climate Justice Charter Draft

The Co-operative and Policy Alternative Centre, together with the South African and Food Sovereignty Campaign, along with activists on the ground and...

Churches in Southern Africa as civil society actors for ecological sustainability

SAFCEI recently attended the International Conference on**Churches in Southern Africa as civil society actors for ecological sustainability** that w...