Just Us and the Climate - Climate Justice Coalition

From Plans to Power: How Communities Can Drive Change Through IDPs. In this episode of Just Us and the Climate, we unpack a powerful yet often overlooked or misunderstood tool in the fight for social and climate justice: Integrated Development Plans (IDPs). Host Ferron Pedro explores how communities can make use of these strategic local government plans to drive real, equitable change on the ground — whether it's looking at housing, tackling drought in farming towns, or launching water conservation projects. Listen to climate activist Motlatsi Makhasane talk about how to use the IDP process to demand sustainable solutions — and win. Plus, we have IDP expert Tsekiso Majake who unpacks how you can get involved, influence municipal plans, and avoid common pitfalls. Whether you're a seasoned community activist or just curious, tune in and learn how power really works — at the local level. Website [http://climatejusticecoalition.org/?utm_source=Solid%20Gold%20Podcast%20Studios] · Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CJcoalition] · Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cjcoailtion/]

In this episode, Shaazia Ebrahim speaks to the outgoing leadership of the Climate Justice Coalition, as they reflect on the challenges, rewards, and lessons learnt from having led and grown the coalition from when it was just beginning just over five years ago. Mbali Baduza and Alex Lenferna, the outgoing and inaugural deputy and general secretary of the coalition speak about the challenges of movement building, the importance of mental health, the need to be radical, and so much more. The conversation gives open, honest, and heartfelt insights into the difficulties, rewards, and lessons of leadership, especially for younger people thrust into positions of hefty responsibility at the forefront of movements. This episode comes out just as the new leadership of the Climate Justice Coalition is taking the helm and is a useful resource to help the new leadership of the coalition, and the movement more broadly, navigate this challenging time ahead where the climate crisis intersects with so many urgent challenges. Website [http://climatejusticecoalition.org/?utm_source=Solid%20Gold%20Podcast%20Studios] · Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CJcoalition] · Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cjcoailtion/]

The threat posed by coal and the MMSEZ to Limpopo's water resources. This podcast episode is incendiary, a must-listen – affording a vivid insight into what economic colonialism means, and why it’s urgent that the public exercise their democratic right to participate in fundamental decisions about how Limpopo's scarce water resources will be exploited in the future to support the planned expansion of coal mining, development of a new coal field, and a dirty, foreign-owned industrial zone. In this episode, host Robert Krause of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) a human rights organisation based at the University of Witwatersrand, explores with his guests, Mphatheleni Makaulule from Dzomo La Mupo and Lauren Liebenberg of Living Limpopo, the cultural, spiritual, ecological, and economic significance of water for the vha-Venda people of Limpopo, the potentially devastating impacts of the MMSEZ and coal mining on water resources, on biodiversity, and the profound implications of the ongoing water 'Reserve determination' process in water resource management. Living Limpopo's website [https://livinglimpopo.org/] · Wits Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits School of Law [https://www.wits.ac.za/cals/] · Dzomo La Mupo, Voice of Creation [https://www.thedzomolamupo.org/] · Website [http://climatejusticecoalition.org/?utm_source=Solid%20Gold%20Podcast%20Studios] · Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CJcoalition] · Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cjcoailtion/]

What will a People's Power movement look like in South Africa? In this episode, Francina Nkosi of the Waterberg Women's Advocacy Organisation leads a powerful discussion on the meaning and impact of People's Power. Joined by Thandi Tess Tshaka from the Botshabelo Unemployed Movement, Brighton Phiri of Nu-Climate Vision, Priyanka Naidoo from Green Connection, and Thumeka Magwangqana of the Sinethemba Women's Organisation, the panel explores what a People's Power movement could look like. The conversation is set against the backdrop of the nationwide People's Power marches in March 2024, where communities and workers across South Africa demanded clean, affordable, and reliable electricity in response to the ongoing load shedding crisis. Listen to how ordinary South Africans are uniting for change and pushing for urgent action on the country’s energy and climate crisis. Website [http://climatejusticecoalition.org/?utm_source=Solid%20Gold%20Podcast%20Studios] · Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CJcoalition] · Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cjcoailtion/]

The Climate Justice Coalition (CJC) is a South African coalition of over 60 trade unions, civil society, grassroots, and community-based organisations. It is a powerful movement taking on the climate crisis by advancing a transformative climate justice agenda, which works to overcome the deep inequality, poverty and multiple injustices that South Africa faces. In this episode, CJC General Secretary Alex Lenferna and Deputy Secretary General Mbali Baduza host a live session at the May 2024 Gathering tracing the Coalition's beginnings. They engage an audience of Coalition members on how the Coalition came to be, tracking how the Coalition grew from a moment of solidarity to the force it has become today. From the various campaigns and protests, to the major shifts and changes, this is the story of the CJC. Link to the full video episode [https://youtu.be/uSfnOsp3lq4?feature=shared] · Climate Justice Coalition website [https://climatejusticecoalition.org/] · Website [http://climatejusticecoalition.org/?utm_source=Solid%20Gold%20Podcast%20Studios] · Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/CJcoalition] · Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/cjcoailtion/]