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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 25 August 2025 [South Africa] The 30-day public consultation process on South Africa’s draft second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) closes on 29 August. Civil society organisations are calling for major revisions to strengthen ambition, coherence, and accountability in the country’s climate commitments. Organisations affiliated with the Climate Justice Coalition (CJC) and the…

17 July, 2025 [South Africa] The Climate Justice Coalition Energy and Mining Working and Legal Working Groups are appalled to hear of Minister Gwede Mantashe’s renewed calls to lift the moratorium on fracking in the Karoo and his abject disregard for people and the environment. Mantashe’s recent statements in Parliament, suggesting that opposing gas and…

[South Africa] – 12 June 2025 — Today marks a historic moment of global solidarity as thousands of activists and health professionals from different countries gather in Egypt for the global March to Gaza. The Climate Justice Coalition (CJC) steering committee stands in firm support of this action, echoing the call to break Israel’s brutal…

On May 28, 2025, Glencore, the world’s largest mining conglomerate, will host its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Switzerland. On that day, coordinated actions will erupt around the world in South Africa, Colombia, Peru, Germany, and Switzerland, organised by the global Resist Glencore Network and the Global Energy Embargo Campaign. In South Africa, the South…

23 January 2025 As the Climate Justice Coalition (CJC), a coalition made up of South African trade unions, grassroots, community-based and non-profit organisations, we express our unequivocal and full solidarity with the miners who were and are trapped, and being sacrificed in Stilfontein mine shafts.  Furthermore, we condemn the actions of the South African government,…