Changing Practice
Large scale industrial timber plantations contribute to crisis in the Bushbuckridge area
by December Ndhlovu, 4th October 2019 Bushbuckridge is one of the areas that were declared a “Presidential Nodal Point” in 2001 during Thabo Mbeki’s first presidential tenure. A presidential nodal point is a municipality that is identified a high poverty area and these municipalities are declared by the President of the country. Bushbuckridge is a…
Community activists as catalysts for change
By December Ndhlovu In the last 10 years, the Water Research Commission (WRC) presented an opportunity to community-based environmental activists to conduct research on issues that are of concern to them through a project that is known as the “Social Learning or Change Project”. This is an 18 months short course offered through Rhodes University’s…
Sekhukhune Environmental Justice Network Changing Practice update
By December Ndhlovu This is the first in a series of updates on the work of participants who have attended the Changing Practice course facilitated by the Changing Practice Coalition. We share these updates to honour their continued work long after the course is over. The Changing Practice course is a community based action research…
Tokelo attends the 10th Alternative Mining Indaba
Tokelo attends the 10th Alternative Mining Indaba, 4-6 Feb 2019 First of all I would like to thank each and every one who donated and made an effort towards this. I really appreciate everything you have done for me. The trip to Cape Town was very good and useful. I managed to attend the 10th…
Zingela Ulwazi is honoured to host the Changing Practice blog
Zingela Ulwazi is honoured to host the blog for Changing Practice, a coalition of activists who participated in an 18 month course. Following a successful two year Changing Practice course with participants from the South African Water Caucus, 2017-2018 saw EMG’s Water and Climate Change programme, in partnership with Rhodes University’s ELRC and AWARD, running a Changing Practice course…
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