The following was extracted from our 2020 closing newsletter. You can sign up for our newsletters straight to your inbox here. What a year this has been. We do hope that you have come through it without too much difficulty. Unfortunately, the pandemic is the kind of event that is considered by many experts to …
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Call to Action In support of groundWork’s recent request “for a speedy and urgent investigation to arrest and put on trial those responsible for the murder of Mama Fikile Ntshangase”, we are sending a follow-up letter to President Ramaphosa and Minister of Police Bheki Cele in support of groundWork and the Somkhele community. Please read our letter …
Date: 11 November Time: 19h30 Place: https://meet.google.com/ygz-bjuw-irv Please register your attendance below or via bit.ly/ffsa-uct-webinar We’ve been campaigning for UCT to stop investing in climate-breaking fossil fuels for seven years, while hundreds of global institutions have joined the movement. Over the past few months, many people and institutions have written to the new UCT Council in …
Fossil Free South Africa and 350 Africa congratulate the City of eThekwini/Durban on becoming the second South African city to commit to phasing out investments in climate-breaking fossil fuels. The eThekwini commitment was announced in late September, when the Mayors of Durban and Cape Town joined a group of 12 mayors from North America, Europe …
We have a significant opportunity for YOU to help progress our campaign asking UCT to start divesting its endowment fund from fossil fuels THIS YEAR, to start to foster a genuinely socially responsible investment industry in South Africa. Please ask your department, school or organisation to write to the new UCT Council, urging it to …
We have always been clear that at the heart of our campaign to halt all investments in climate-breaking fossil fuels, is the pursuit to advance and protect human rights, not just financial capital. That is because climate and ecological breakdown is unequivocally a human rights issue. One that does and will continue to affect us …
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We’re working to create investment funds that invest in a safer climate and secure future for our children. Campaigning for a world without the deadly fossil fuels – coal, gas, and oil – that cause climate breakdown. At the moment, all too many of us are supporting the fossil fuel industry indirectly and involuntarily through …
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This year we are launching an additional newsletter, Planet A Investment, for financial professionals. Take a look at the first of many newsletters to come below. If this is something you’d like to continue receiving, sign up for the update straight to your inbox. Cut global emissions by 7.6% every year for next decade to …
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UCT’s Convocation, the body comprising all alumni and academic staff, meets on Thursday 12 December 2019 at Kramer Building Lecture Theatre 1, Middle Campus at 17h00 for 17h30. For the second time, we will be proposing a motion on divestment. If you’re a UCT alumnus or academic staff member, you’re eligible to offer a (non-binding) vote in favour …
The following was sent out to our mailing list in response to the recent gazetting of the integrated resource plan in South Africa. For news straight to your inbox, sign up to our mailing list here. As you may have heard, for the first time since 2010 the South African government has managed to finalise …
