News
This is the news home of Fossil Free SA, the campaign for fossil fuel divestment and sustainable reinvestment. Below you’ll find our latest newsletters (hosted on Substack) and blog posts.
Our latest newsletters on Substack
Our latest blog posts
Gwede Mantashe: The Minister for Economic Destruction and Human Under-development?
As our new Minister of Mineral and Energy Resources fights to keep our economy in the dark ages, aided and abetted by a media sector credulous enough to repeat 'clean coal' rhetoric…
The facts that climate change deniers have to deny
To deny that human beings are changing the climate of the Earth in very dangerous ways, you have to disagree with one or more of these facts…
How SA's top asset managers have responded so far to our call for fossil-fuel free funds
As you know, our biggest petition and campaign calls on SA's top asset managers to give you the option of not investing in planet-killing companies like Sasol.
How to find reliable information about climate change
It's often difficult to know what news sources to trust on climate change, given the vast amount of disinformation out there. So we've worked to put together a summary of reliable sources.
Fossil Free SA past rolling research April 2017–April 2018
These are some of the links and articles we attempt to integrate into our work and communications. Items are dated by when they came to our attention, not necessarily by date of publication. In future, we'll aim to publish these month by month.
August research links
Our work involves ongoing research into divestment, investment, climate change, the energy transition (or lack thereof), and related issues. Henceforth, we'll be publishing these each month as a list of links.