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The six South Africans who were captured by Israel while part of the Global Sumud Flotilla last week are set to return home on Tuesday
APARTHEID

Gaza flotilla sails on despite attacks

Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Inkosi Mandla Mandela recalled the years when his country was an outcast, kept alive by global solidarity. Now, he said, the same must be done for Palestine. Photo: Hasina Kathrada
APARTHEID

Mandla Mandela urges same global support for Palestine that helped free SA from apartheid

Nelson Mandela’s grandson addressed hundreds of people from over 40 countries at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian mission aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to…

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa. Photo: Hasina Kathrada
APARTHEID

From SA to Gaza. A young activist carries on family tradition of fighting oppression

Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. (Hasina Kathrada)
BDS MOVEMENT

UPDATE: Greta Thunberg accuses governments and corporations of enabling Gaza atrocities

The Swedish activist spoke from a flotilla of boats carrying doctors, lawyers, activists, organisers and social media influencers attempting to take medicine and infant milk to…

  • Hasina Kathrada
3 min read
Even as a schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has stood up for environmental and human rights.
CLIMATE JUSTICE

In a world of injustices, be Greta Thunberg

The climate activist also advocates for human rights, such as those of Palestinians being killed by Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza

  • Robert Kigongo
3 min read
For good: Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins pro-Palestinian supporters in Stockholm during their demonstration against Israel Defence Forces attacks on the Gaza Strip in which thousands of people have been killed. Photo: Narciso Contreras/Getty Images
CLIMATE JUSTICE

Climate justice and human rights go hand in hand

One cannot stand for climate justice but remain silent while Palestine suffers injustice daily This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free…

  • Ozayr Patel
1 min read
Speak up: Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.
AFRICANS OF THE YEAR

The Continent’s Africans of the Year: Vanessa Nakate

The activist who forced her way onto front pages: Initially cropped out and sidelined, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has now become an essential voice for Africa on the…

  • Sipho Kings
  • The Continent
3 min read
10 December 2019, Spain, Madrid: Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist, speaks at an event at the UN Climate Change Conference, holding a microphone in her hand. Photo: Clara Margais/dpa (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ANN SKELTON

Countries bear cross-border responsibility for harmful effects of climate change, rules UN child rights committee

The UN committee has been accused of ‘turning its back’ on the children who filed a groundbreaking legal complaint with it against five countries

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Intersectional protest: Members of Extinction Rebellion and Red Rebels, as well as other local Cape Town environmental action groups, mobilised outside parliament last Friday, calling for climate action and environmental justice. (David Harrison/M&G)
AFRICA CLIMATE ALLIANCE

South Africa’s young climate strikers hit back at critics

Critics have accused the young climate activists of being divisive and unrepresentative; they say this simply isn’t true

  • Tunicia Phillips
6 min read
A man scoops leaked oil from the vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground near Blue Bay Marine Park off the coast of south-east Mauritius on August 8, 2020. – France on August 8, 2020 dispatched aircraft and technical advisers from Reunion to Mauritius after the prime minister appealed for urgent assistance to contain a worsening oil spill polluting the island nation’s famed reefs, lagoons and oceans. Rough seas have hampered efforts to stop fuel leaking from the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran aground two weeks ago, and is staining pristine waters in an ecologically protected marine area off the south-east coast. (Jean Aurelio PRUDENCE / L’Express Maurice / AFP)
BIG OIL
Video

Mauritius weeps as the island is surrounded by oil

The Wakashio freighter spilled 4 000 tonnes of oil into the sea off the Mauritian coast. Now the island’s residents are working together to recover from the disaster.

  • Jess Auerbach
  • Deeya Jahajeeah
4 min read
Intergenerational benefits: Children who have healthy diets, good care and education are likely to have productive lives. (Adek Berry/AFP)
ALCOHOL

Invest in children to give them a better world

This entails putting them at the centre of national strategies, but doing it without high CO2 releases

  • Helen Clark
5 min read
Around the world, education systems are struggling to equip learners with the values, skills and knowledge needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world. (Ryan Gray/Reuters)
ADDIS ABABA

The urgency of rethinking education — for Africa and the world

We need to re-evaluate the purpose and delivery of learning, so that all citizens are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century, among them fighting climate change and…

  • Audrey Azoulay
  • Sahle-Work Zewde
3 min read
Ticking: Demonstrators are calling on world governments to take action against climate degradation. (Marco Canoniero/Getty Images)
CAPITALISM

Renewables not a silver bullet for inequality

COMMENT We talk as if building wind, solar and other sources of limitless, clean energy will redistribute wealth and drive social justice globally. We see it as the fix for a…

  • Sipho Kings
5 min read
Greta Thunberg was in the audience in the Swiss Alps to hear a typically bullish speech by US President Doanld Trump, delivered just before the start of his Senate impeachment trial in Washington.
CLIMATE CHANGE

Trump rejects climate ‘prophets of doom’ as Thunberg warns Davos

The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming…

  • Sebastian Smith
  • Stuart Williams
4 min read
Greta Thunberg addresses a crowd at the Global Climate Strike against the use of fossil fuels
ACTIVISM
Video

Who’s afraid of Greta Thunberg?

Some say the teenager is being manipulated, others say her solutions are unrealistic and undemocratic. But her words have mobilised people

  • Svenja Blanke
11 min read
Nicole Anthony (16), from Lotus High, said she joined the protest because “we are the future. If nothing changes, there will be no food and we will die”. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks, courtesy of GroundUp)
350 AFRICA
Video

​Our kids may still save us

The youth are demanding that more action is taken on the climate crisis – it’s their future that’s at stake

  • Derek Davey
11 min read
Truth to power: Greta Thunberg speaks out at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations last month. She was mocked by the United States president, a climate crisis denier. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
CLIMATE CHANGE

Beware the bullshit

Detecting crap is difficult but essential, because it conceals truth, needed for survival and prosperity

  • Nadia Marais
5 min read