Fossil Free SA in the news
2021
- 23 March 2021, TimesLive: ‘Our public finance institutions are fuelling climate change‘ (Joint oped with 350Africa.org, African Climate Reality Project, Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office, Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth Mozambique) and the Life After Coal campaign)
- 18 March 2021, The World (co-production of PRX and WGBH, US public radio): ‘The Big Fix: Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle‘
- 22 February 2021 in Citywire: ‘Local managers respond to Fossil Free SA’s call for fossil fuel-free funds’ | (Screengrab from Citywire frontpage on 22 Feb 2021)
2020
- October 2020 in Green Building Africa: ‘eThekwini/Durban commits to Phasing out Investments in Climate-Breaking Fossil Fuels’
- October 2020 in Green Times: ‘Durban to Drop Fossil Fuels from its investments’
- 4 February 2020: Business Live: ‘Investors are sitting on a time bomb of fossil fuel assets’
- 30 January 2020: News 24: ‘Coal kills’ – activists ask big business to forget profits and put environment first
2019
- 13 August 2019: Daily Maverick: ‘Pension funds at risk as tide turns against carbon-polluting industries’
- July 2019: Radio interview with Keenan Williams on Cape Talk.
- 13 June 2019: Daily Maverick: ‘Invest for the future, divest from companies that fuel the climate crisis’
- 14 April 2019: Interview on eNCA Business Hour.
- 4 April 2019: Interview on Cape Talk Breakfast show with An Wentzel.
- 8 February 2019: Oped in Business Day: ‘Climate change must be a central pillar of economic growth’
2018
- 12 September 2018: Article on Twyg webzine: ‘What is the effect of your savings on dirty energy companies?’
2017
- 10 October 2017: Interview re Inconvenient Sequel and divestment on Classic FM (Jhb), with Tamara LePine Williams.
- 4 October 2017: Mellony Spark interviewed on SABC Channel Africa about our ‘We are Ready to Divest’ petition and plans for Rocking the Daisies.
- 20 September 2017: Interviewed by Ernest Pillay on Radio 2000 drive time.
- August 2017: Our UCT campaign was mentioned in an EWN article referring to this article on The Conversation, and republished here.
- July 2017: Article ‘Breaking up with fossil fuels’ (see pdf here) in Green Economy Journal 26 (magazine).
- Oped in Business Day (19 July 2017): ‘Signs are the climate is right for divesting from the fossil fuel industry’ (archived link here)
- Oped on Independent Online (19 May 2017): ‘The end of fossil fuels a fresh start for continent’. This article was also printed in The Mercury, Pretoria News, Cape Times and The Star.
- Radio interview on SABC Channel Africa (2 May 2017)
2016
- Cape Town TV, interview on Ek se (29 June 2016)
- earthworks magazine (May 2016)
2015
- SAFM (The Enviro Show), 29 January 2015, national radio interview with Nancy Richards
- 5FM, 26 January 2015, national radio interview on Fresh Drive show
- Mail & Guardian, 9 January 2015, ‘Get out of dirty fossil fuel‘
2014
- Htxt.Africa, 8 January 2014, ‘R1.3 million crowdfunding campaign to halt climate change in SA still open on Thundafund‘
- Business Day, 8 December 2014, ‘Fossil Free SA: Saving life as we know it‘ (pdf version)
- Green Home, December 2014 (p. 37).
- Daily Maverick, 28 November 2014, ‘Divesting from dirty energy – a question of freedom’.
- News24.com, 17 November 2014, ‘Are you financing the fossil fuel industry?’
- Constantiaberg Bulletin, 20 November 2014, ‘You may be funding the fossil fuel industry’ (pdf)
- Fossil Free SA was interviewed on Voice of the Cape and Radio Islam on 10/11 November.
- Open Democracy (24 October 2014): ‘After inspiring fossil fuel divestment, will South Africa’s own campaign succeed?’
- VARSITY (14 Oct 2014) ‘Fossil Free UCT campaign‘
- Interviewed on the Enviro Show, SAFM (radio, 31 July 2014)
- Ecumenical News (31 July 2014): ‘Desmond Tutu calls on South African university to divest from fossil fuels’
- The Sowetan (28 July 2014): ‘Fight against climate change in Africa gets boost as Tutu endorses student call for UCT to go fossil free’
- Cape Business News (28 July 2014): ‘Archbishop Tutu asks UCT to withdraw investments in fossil fuels’
- VARSITY (29 April 2014): ‘UCT should divest from fossil fuels now’