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2020 SAFCEI Calendar Featuring photography by local Cape Town/Garden Route artist Andrea Nixon This calendar is a little piece of useful feel-good showcasing the natural beauty of our increasingly valuable and vulnerable seashores, reminding us of what we still have...
read moreCivil Society Open letter to the African Development Bank
Food and Climate Justice: IPCC special report on climate change and land
By Robyn Bowden The IPCC land report: why it is important, what we will be doing, and who am I? Let us start with who I am - My name is Robyn Bowden and I am the newest member of the SAFCEI team. I am working together with faith communities to tackle food and climate...
read moreFood inequality in South Africa
By Robyn Bowden It is common knowledge that South Africa suffers from extreme income inequality. But just how unequal is not always clear. Most South Africans wrongly predict where they are located in income distribution. As a result, the Southern Africa Labour...
read moreCORRUPT, STATE CAPTURE NUCLEAR DEALS LIVES ON IN NEW IRP
Media Release 19 October 2019 Corrupt, state capture nuclear deals lives on in new IRP “We are dismayed that the government has included nuclear in its new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) released yesterday,” said Francesca de Gasparis, Executive Director of SAFCEI,...
read moreLetter from SAFCEI on Banning Glyphosate in South Africa
Climate Change Lecture at Masjid-ul Islam (JHB)
President’s letter – The IRP and our energy future
RURAL POOR BIGGEST LOSERS IN NUCLEAR DEAL CAPTURE
Media Release 12 October 2019 The People’s Hearing on State Capture is intended to collect and provide evidence of the impact of state capture and corruption to the country’s law enforcement agencies and to the Zondo Commission. The Civil Society Working Group on...
read moreA Plea to the UN from Africa
The United Nations General Secretary, Antonio Guterres knows how serious and destructive climate change is. Recent weather events underscore this. It is our hope, as people of faith and as expressed globally by the next generation on 20th September at the Climate...
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