VENUE: Justice
Date: 21 March 2025 | Time: 11:00 – 12:00 | Presented by: Groundwork
Human Rights Defenders: Human Rights and Activism in the Fight for a Just Transition
Exploring Community Impact, Environmental Justice, and the Just Energy Transition
Groundwork will share its latest findings on the Just Energy Transition process by presenting and discussing the latest report. Representatives from impacted communities. They will share first hand experiences and stories on how they see the transition and how its, positively or negatively, affecting them.
Thami Nkosi
Programme Administrator, Centre for Environmental Rights
Thami Nkosi is a social justice activist working particularly with marginalized and disenfranchised communities and social movements. He is a Programme Administrator at the Centre for Environmental Rights.
Nqobile Ranela
Community Organiser, Groundwork
Nqobile Ranela is an environmental justice activist based in the Mpumalanga Highveld, where issues of air and water pollution have adverse impacts on people’s daily lives. She is a Community Organiser at groundWork.
Thoko Nkosi
Community Activist, Sukumani Environmental Justice
Thoko Nkosi is a community activist from Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal. She is a member of Sukumani Environmental Justice, a community group resisting the impacts of coal mining and spreading awareness about the negative impact of mining in the area.
Thabo Sibeko
Senior Programmes Officer, Earth Life Africa
Thabo Sibeko is an environmental justice and climate activist based in Johannesburg. Thabo is currently a Senior Programmes Officer at Earth Life Africa
