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Sibusiso Mazomba

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Sibusiso Mazomba

Sibusiso Mazomba is from the African Climate Alliance, a youth-led group advocating for climate, ecological and social justice in South Africa

Ramaphosa said the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan has attracted about R250 billion in international pledges for large-scale manufacturing, infrastructure and skills development.
CANCELCOAL JUDGMENT

Procedural justice foundation of South Africa’s just energy transition

The JET must be deep: redistributive, participatory and youth-led

  • Sibusiso Mazomba
  • Bertha Letsoko
6 min read
Determined: Climate change demonstrators from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in central London, promising two weeks of disruption. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
STOPCAMBO

Global leaders must implement their climate commitments

As the just transition gathers momentum and renewable energy becomes more affordable, countries around the world taking climate action. South Africa must follow suit

  • Pètra de Beer
  • Sibusiso Mazomba
6 min read
No new coal: Unemployed men such as Bonginkosi Mhlanga scrape a living from abandoned mine shafts. Analysts warn that commodity prices, which have over the years sometimes papered over South Africa’s economic woes, will not keep the country going forever. (Emmanuel Croset/AFP)
ACCESS TO WATER

Young people call for an end to the terrible legacy of coal

‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’

  • Gabriel Klaasen
  • Sibusiso Mazomba
  • Mitchelle Mhaka
  • Sarah Robyn Farrell
3 min read
El Niño is expected to cause a loss of rainfall
AFRICAN CLIMATE ALLIANCE

South Africa’s nationally determined contribution plan for climate change must be more ambitious, say nation’s youth

The pandemic has demonstrated that, when it’s a matter of life and death, we can manage dramatic U-turns in public policy. We must take similarly decisive action now on climate…

  • Sibusiso Mazomba
  • Gabriel Klaasen
  • Sarah Robyn Farrell
5 min read