groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa
@groundworksa.bsky.social
Established in 1999, groundWork is a principles driven non-profit environmental justice organisation working towards a just transition and open democracy in South Africa and beyond. Its vision is that people live well with each other and with the earth.
Bhopal India 3/12/1984
Toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide pesticide plant
1000s died
100s of 1000s live with illness, contaminated water, intergenerational harm.
41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free
Survivors do not
Bhopal, UPL Chemical harm is not accidental
#EnvironmentalJustice
Toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide pesticide plant
1000s died
100s of 1000s live with illness, contaminated water, intergenerational harm.
41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free
Survivors do not
Bhopal, UPL Chemical harm is not accidental
#EnvironmentalJustice
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Bhopal India 3/12/1984
Toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide pesticide plant
1000s died
100s of 1000s live with illness, contaminated water, intergenerational harm.
41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free
Survivors do not
Bhopal, UPL Chemical harm is not accidental
#EnvironmentalJustice
Toxic gas leaked from Union Carbide pesticide plant
1000s died
100s of 1000s live with illness, contaminated water, intergenerational harm.
41 years on Union Carbide & Dow Chemicals walk free
Survivors do not
Bhopal, UPL Chemical harm is not accidental
#EnvironmentalJustice
New investigation by @Public Eye reveals shocking double standards by Nestlé.
Read more here: groundwork.org.za/sugar-scanda...
#ProtectOurChildren #NestléDoubleStandards #FoodJusticeSA #HealthyKidsSA #CorporateAccountability
Read more here: groundwork.org.za/sugar-scanda...
#ProtectOurChildren #NestléDoubleStandards #FoodJusticeSA #HealthyKidsSA #CorporateAccountability
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
New investigation by @Public Eye reveals shocking double standards by Nestlé.
Read more here: groundwork.org.za/sugar-scanda...
#ProtectOurChildren #NestléDoubleStandards #FoodJusticeSA #HealthyKidsSA #CorporateAccountability
Read more here: groundwork.org.za/sugar-scanda...
#ProtectOurChildren #NestléDoubleStandards #FoodJusticeSA #HealthyKidsSA #CorporateAccountability
As COP30 begins in Belem, do you remember what you were doing on this fateful day of 10 November in 1995 when Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni colleagues were hanged for campaigning nonviolently against the oil company Shell - for defending their most basic rights?
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
As COP30 begins in Belem, do you remember what you were doing on this fateful day of 10 November in 1995 when Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni colleagues were hanged for campaigning nonviolently against the oil company Shell - for defending their most basic rights?
"Our Light, Our Power" docci on groundbreaking project places advocacy for a just transition at the heart of SA social movements. Communities are shaping a renewable energy future rooted in justice. VEM ABM SDCEA lead the way to energy democracy.
#JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy
youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE
#JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy
youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE
Our Light, Our Power
YouTube video by groundWork SA
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Our Light, Our Power" docci on groundbreaking project places advocacy for a just transition at the heart of SA social movements. Communities are shaping a renewable energy future rooted in justice. VEM ABM SDCEA lead the way to energy democracy.
#JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy
youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE
#JustTransition #EnergyDemocracy
youtu.be/RxwSPdQezwE
Victory for the climate: Total has just been convicted of greenwashing!
On the eve of COP30, this decision sets a major legal precedent against climate disinformation from oil majors.
Our press release 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
On the eve of COP30, this decision sets a major legal precedent against climate disinformation from oil majors.
Our press release 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
Communiqué pour les 66e commémorations d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki
Le 6 août 2011, Tokyo - Junichi Mishiba, Directeur Exécutif, Les Amis de la Terre Japon - Ce 6 et ce 9 août marqueront le 66e anniversaire des bombardements d'Hiroshima et Nagasaki. Nous exprimons no...
www.amisdelaterre.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Victory for the climate: Total has just been convicted of greenwashing!
On the eve of COP30, this decision sets a major legal precedent against climate disinformation from oil majors.
Our press release 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
On the eve of COP30, this decision sets a major legal precedent against climate disinformation from oil majors.
Our press release 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
Today is #GlobalFertilizerDay, but here’s the truth:
Chemical fertilizers poison our food, pollute water & air, while tying global food prices to fossil fuel markets. A few corporations profit. The rest of us pay the price
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay #FertilizerDay #FoodJustice
Chemical fertilizers poison our food, pollute water & air, while tying global food prices to fossil fuel markets. A few corporations profit. The rest of us pay the price
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay #FertilizerDay #FoodJustice
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today is #GlobalFertilizerDay, but here’s the truth:
Chemical fertilizers poison our food, pollute water & air, while tying global food prices to fossil fuel markets. A few corporations profit. The rest of us pay the price
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay #FertilizerDay #FoodJustice
Chemical fertilizers poison our food, pollute water & air, while tying global food prices to fossil fuel markets. A few corporations profit. The rest of us pay the price
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay #FertilizerDay #FoodJustice
VACANCY! Action Appointments is recruiting a Human Resources Officer for groundWork, based in Durban, SA
info link:
www.actionappointments.co.za/.../human-re....
#Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban
info link:
www.actionappointments.co.za/.../human-re....
#Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
VACANCY! Action Appointments is recruiting a Human Resources Officer for groundWork, based in Durban, SA
info link:
www.actionappointments.co.za/.../human-re....
#Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban
info link:
www.actionappointments.co.za/.../human-re....
#Hiring #groundWork #HumanResourcesOfficer #EnvironmentalJustice #NonprofitRecruitment #Durban
17 September 2025: Civil society organisations welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, that has denied Eskom authorisation to build a 3000MW gas-to-power plant in Richards Bay.
SDCEA and groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.
SDCEA and groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
17 September 2025: Civil society organisations welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, that has denied Eskom authorisation to build a 3000MW gas-to-power plant in Richards Bay.
SDCEA and groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.
SDCEA and groundWork hail the judgement a victory for affected communities who weren't adequately consulted.
Fossil fuels drive climate change, they damage human health, destabilize communities, and put our future at risk - from cradle to grave.
Every organ, every body
Read: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr...
#CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction
Every organ, every body
Read: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr...
#CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Fossil fuels drive climate change, they damage human health, destabilize communities, and put our future at risk - from cradle to grave.
Every organ, every body
Read: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr...
#CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction
Every organ, every body
Read: climateandhealthalliance.org/cradle-to-gr...
#CradleToGrave #HealthNotFossilFuels #JustTransition #PublicHealth #ClimateAction
Principles for a Rapid, Equitable & Just Transition to Renewable Energy Systems:
Demand: #EnergyDemocracy
Reject: #FalseSolutions
Get the Principles here:
En: drive.google.com/file/d/15Zvr...
Fr: drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEB...
Por: drive.google.com/file/d/1A6ZK...
#RenewablesWithJustice
Demand: #EnergyDemocracy
Reject: #FalseSolutions
Get the Principles here:
En: drive.google.com/file/d/15Zvr...
Fr: drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEB...
Por: drive.google.com/file/d/1A6ZK...
#RenewablesWithJustice
August 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Principles for a Rapid, Equitable & Just Transition to Renewable Energy Systems:
Demand: #EnergyDemocracy
Reject: #FalseSolutions
Get the Principles here:
En: drive.google.com/file/d/15Zvr...
Fr: drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEB...
Por: drive.google.com/file/d/1A6ZK...
#RenewablesWithJustice
Demand: #EnergyDemocracy
Reject: #FalseSolutions
Get the Principles here:
En: drive.google.com/file/d/15Zvr...
Fr: drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEB...
Por: drive.google.com/file/d/1A6ZK...
#RenewablesWithJustice
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This is also true for #greenhydrogen
A year ago CEO visited 🇿🇦, where petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling green H2 export project w/ Port of Rotterdam around Boegoebaai.
Check what communities had to say
www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...
@groundworksa.bsky.social
A year ago CEO visited 🇿🇦, where petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling green H2 export project w/ Port of Rotterdam around Boegoebaai.
Check what communities had to say
www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...
@groundworksa.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is also true for #greenhydrogen
A year ago CEO visited 🇿🇦, where petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling green H2 export project w/ Port of Rotterdam around Boegoebaai.
Check what communities had to say
www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...
@groundworksa.bsky.social
A year ago CEO visited 🇿🇦, where petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling green H2 export project w/ Port of Rotterdam around Boegoebaai.
Check what communities had to say
www.corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleF...
@groundworksa.bsky.social
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How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen?
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
The EU's dirty hydrogen push in South Africa - revealed
EU politicians are presenting green hydrogen as a win-win fuel, claiming it will lead to low-carbon industrialisation in the Global South while decarbonising economies in Europe. The reality on the gr...
euobserver.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
How is the EU's new Clean Trade and Investment Partnership #CTIP is helping Europe get control of South Africa's (not-so-green) hydrogen?
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Read this op-ed by @groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley and CEO's @belenbalanya.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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At the 9th Maputo Workshop on corporate impunity and human rights with JA! / FoE Mozambique and @groundworksa.bsky.social / FoE South Africa
We continue to internationalise the struggle to #StopCorporateImpunity, in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of corporate power
We continue to internationalise the struggle to #StopCorporateImpunity, in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of corporate power
July 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
At the 9th Maputo Workshop on corporate impunity and human rights with JA! / FoE Mozambique and @groundworksa.bsky.social / FoE South Africa
We continue to internationalise the struggle to #StopCorporateImpunity, in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of corporate power
We continue to internationalise the struggle to #StopCorporateImpunity, in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of corporate power
Reposted by groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa
Lors du 9e atelier de Maputo avec JA ! / AT Mozambique et @groundworksa.bsky.social / AT Afrique du Sud
Nous continuons à internationaliser la lutte pour mettre fin à l'impunité des multinationales, en solidarité avec les communautés affectées par le pouvoir des multinationales
Nous continuons à internationaliser la lutte pour mettre fin à l'impunité des multinationales, en solidarité avec les communautés affectées par le pouvoir des multinationales
July 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Lors du 9e atelier de Maputo avec JA ! / AT Mozambique et @groundworksa.bsky.social / AT Afrique du Sud
Nous continuons à internationaliser la lutte pour mettre fin à l'impunité des multinationales, en solidarité avec les communautés affectées par le pouvoir des multinationales
Nous continuons à internationaliser la lutte pour mettre fin à l'impunité des multinationales, en solidarité avec les communautés affectées par le pouvoir des multinationales
Day 5 IX Maputo Workshop on Corporate Impunity and Human Rights: African voices gathered to rethink democracy embracing Pan-Africanist alternatives to capitalism. Powerful voices on community resistance, feminist leadership, land sovereignty and confronting extractivism to reclaim Africa’s future.
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Day 5 IX Maputo Workshop on Corporate Impunity and Human Rights: African voices gathered to rethink democracy embracing Pan-Africanist alternatives to capitalism. Powerful voices on community resistance, feminist leadership, land sovereignty and confronting extractivism to reclaim Africa’s future.
INC-5.2 plastics treaty talks in Geneva. Our Chemicals & Campaign Support Coordinator, Rico Euripidou on Radio speaking on the global health and waste scourge of plastics.
Forward to an ambitious, just, and legally binding #PlasticsTreaty
#lessplasticmorelife omny.fm/shows/early-...
Forward to an ambitious, just, and legally binding #PlasticsTreaty
#lessplasticmorelife omny.fm/shows/early-...
Could INC-5.2 finally deliver on the promise to end plastic pollution? - Early Breakfast with Africa Melane
Guest: Rico Euripidou |groundWork Campaigner
Africa Melane speaks to groundWork campaigner Rico Euripidou who is in attendance at the INC-5.2 conference in Geneva. As global leaders debate a treaty t...
omny.fm
August 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
INC-5.2 plastics treaty talks in Geneva. Our Chemicals & Campaign Support Coordinator, Rico Euripidou on Radio speaking on the global health and waste scourge of plastics.
Forward to an ambitious, just, and legally binding #PlasticsTreaty
#lessplasticmorelife omny.fm/shows/early-...
Forward to an ambitious, just, and legally binding #PlasticsTreaty
#lessplasticmorelife omny.fm/shows/early-...
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🚨New video!
Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.
🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...
Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.
🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...
July 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🚨New video!
Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.
🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...
Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.
🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...
Download our Q2 June Newsletter here: groundwork.org.za/wp-content/u...
Featuring legacy 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
Also read about breakthrough banning of Highly Hazardous Pesticide (HPP) terbufos flowing from intervention by the SAPToA
Featuring legacy 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
Also read about breakthrough banning of Highly Hazardous Pesticide (HPP) terbufos flowing from intervention by the SAPToA
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Download our Q2 June Newsletter here: groundwork.org.za/wp-content/u...
Featuring legacy 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
Also read about breakthrough banning of Highly Hazardous Pesticide (HPP) terbufos flowing from intervention by the SAPToA
Featuring legacy 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
Also read about breakthrough banning of Highly Hazardous Pesticide (HPP) terbufos flowing from intervention by the SAPToA
What’s the NDC? How can YOU help shape SA’s climate future?
Join our Public Brown Bag on 18 July with Brandon Abdinor to learn how to engage with SA’s next big climate commitment.
🕧 12:30–14:00
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#NDC2025 #LifeAfterCoal #ClimateJustice
Join our Public Brown Bag on 18 July with Brandon Abdinor to learn how to engage with SA’s next big climate commitment.
🕧 12:30–14:00
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#NDC2025 #LifeAfterCoal #ClimateJustice
July 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What’s the NDC? How can YOU help shape SA’s climate future?
Join our Public Brown Bag on 18 July with Brandon Abdinor to learn how to engage with SA’s next big climate commitment.
🕧 12:30–14:00
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#NDC2025 #LifeAfterCoal #ClimateJustice
Join our Public Brown Bag on 18 July with Brandon Abdinor to learn how to engage with SA’s next big climate commitment.
🕧 12:30–14:00
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#NDC2025 #LifeAfterCoal #ClimateJustice
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DG TRADE's Dora Correia responds to comments on the #CTIP by saying very little of substance that's not already in existing documents.
Avoids criticisms brought up by South Africa's communities or trade unionists. Says the EU is responding to a call by South Africa ("not our fault, gov").
1/2
Avoids criticisms brought up by South Africa's communities or trade unionists. Says the EU is responding to a call by South Africa ("not our fault, gov").
1/2
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
DG TRADE's Dora Correia responds to comments on the #CTIP by saying very little of substance that's not already in existing documents.
Avoids criticisms brought up by South Africa's communities or trade unionists. Says the EU is responding to a call by South Africa ("not our fault, gov").
1/2
Avoids criticisms brought up by South Africa's communities or trade unionists. Says the EU is responding to a call by South Africa ("not our fault, gov").
1/2
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South Africa Trade Union Confederation COSATU's Tanya van Meelis warns against the EU-South Africa #CTIP and its push for green hydrogen leading to a new energy colonialism "it must not replicate the exploitative patterns of the past"
July 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
South Africa Trade Union Confederation COSATU's Tanya van Meelis warns against the EU-South Africa #CTIP and its push for green hydrogen leading to a new energy colonialism "it must not replicate the exploitative patterns of the past"
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@groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley to the European Parliament:
"Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."
"Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."
July 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
@groundworksa.bsky.social's Yegeshni Moodley to the European Parliament:
"Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."
"Green hydrogen has been marketed as a promised panacea for all our energy transition woes.... But there are critical flaws in this hypothesis – there is no empty land in my country, and energy is never free."
EThekwini Municipality panel discussion #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Speakers:
Merrisa Naidoo
Dr Tamlyn Fleetwood
Preston Chetty
Dr Princess Sibanda
Comment below on ways to #BeatPlasticPollution.
@FOE
Speakers:
Merrisa Naidoo
Dr Tamlyn Fleetwood
Preston Chetty
Dr Princess Sibanda
Comment below on ways to #BeatPlasticPollution.
@FOE
June 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
EThekwini Municipality panel discussion #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Speakers:
Merrisa Naidoo
Dr Tamlyn Fleetwood
Preston Chetty
Dr Princess Sibanda
Comment below on ways to #BeatPlasticPollution.
@FOE
Speakers:
Merrisa Naidoo
Dr Tamlyn Fleetwood
Preston Chetty
Dr Princess Sibanda
Comment below on ways to #BeatPlasticPollution.
@FOE
Durban students join us for an activation on waste: Bin There, Done That! by Dr Princess Sibanda is a Zero Waste satirical paly set in a university residence, where discarded items like Paper, Plastic, Cardboard, Puthu, and Bones come to life.
#climatejustice
#activismthrougharts
#JustTransition
#climatejustice
#activismthrougharts
#JustTransition
May 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Durban students join us for an activation on waste: Bin There, Done That! by Dr Princess Sibanda is a Zero Waste satirical paly set in a university residence, where discarded items like Paper, Plastic, Cardboard, Puthu, and Bones come to life.
#climatejustice
#activismthrougharts
#JustTransition
#climatejustice
#activismthrougharts
#JustTransition
Labtalk: #DefendOurDefenders
KZN activists share experiences in the face of unlawful expansion of coal mines in KZN that wreaks havoc on the lives, lands, homes, infrastructure and livelihoods of communities on the fencelines.
#environmentaljustice
#ExhibitionWalkabout
#dbnart
#kznsa
KZN activists share experiences in the face of unlawful expansion of coal mines in KZN that wreaks havoc on the lives, lands, homes, infrastructure and livelihoods of communities on the fencelines.
#environmentaljustice
#ExhibitionWalkabout
#dbnart
#kznsa
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Labtalk: #DefendOurDefenders
KZN activists share experiences in the face of unlawful expansion of coal mines in KZN that wreaks havoc on the lives, lands, homes, infrastructure and livelihoods of communities on the fencelines.
#environmentaljustice
#ExhibitionWalkabout
#dbnart
#kznsa
KZN activists share experiences in the face of unlawful expansion of coal mines in KZN that wreaks havoc on the lives, lands, homes, infrastructure and livelihoods of communities on the fencelines.
#environmentaljustice
#ExhibitionWalkabout
#dbnart
#kznsa