upcoming EVENTS
Take a look at our upcoming and past events across all our campaigns here.
Investment Justice Walk
Join us for the Investment Justice Walk on November 15, 2024, in Cape Town. Starting at St George's Cathedral, we'll embark on a 7 – 8 km walk through key historical and financial sites in Cape Town, exploring the history of ethical investment and climate issues.
We’ll traverse the Iziko Slave Lodge, Parliament, the District Six Museum, the Castle of Good Hope, the Civic Centre, Ninety-One and Allan Gray in the Waterfront.
RSVP at bit.ly/ffsajusticewalk to receive more details! Don’t forget your water, sunscreen, walking shoes, and hat. We will have stops for refreshments and bathroom breaks. Parking is available nearby, and we'll provide transport back to St George's Cathedral from the Waterfront.
Let's take a stand for a sustainable future!
Stop Africa Energy Week Protest
🚨 Stop African Energy Week: Postponed to 8 October 🚨
Join us on the 8th of October 2024 to say NO to Africa Energy Week & to call for an end to the unholy alliance between the fossil fuel industry, finance capital & African governments.*
Important Information: 📢
We will be gathering at Sandton Central Park (Cnr Grayston & Sandton/Leila Khalid Drive) from 09:00 and marching to the African Energy Chamber via the representatives of fossil fuel imperialism, war and destruction. Including the home base of Paramount Group’s Ivor Ichikowitz, the U.S Consulate, and the headquarters of Sasol.
For comrades who are unable to attend in person, we will circulate a sharepack and digital toolkit the day before the action to ensure that there are still opportunities for you to participate and lend your voice in solidarity and support.✊
Planet A Investment Launch
Ready to invest in a sustainable future? Many South Africans are unknowingly investing in fossil fuels through their savings and pensions, accelerating climate change and contributing to social harms.
Future in Focus hosted by Fossil Free South Africa, African Climate Alliance and UCT’s Green Campus Initiative
📣 For the first time in South African history, young activists are leading a class action climate change court case demanding the government halt the development of new coal.
Picnic and Unpack: Greenwashing
SANParks Week offers South Africans free access to our national parks, but what are the hidden costs of this "free" entry?
Join us for a “Picnic and Unpack” session where we'll dive into how fossil fuel companies like TotalEnergies use sponsorships to paint themselves as environmental stewards, distracting us from their harmful impact on people and planet.
Enjoy a relaxed picnic setting while we connect, share insights, and challenge the narratives that allow big polluters to escape accountability.
Bring snacks, blankets, friends and an open mind!
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 14th of September 2024
📍 Meeting point: start of the Pipe Track Trail/opposite the bottom of the Kloof Nek parking lot
🕒 Time: 10h00-12h00
Register: https://tinyurl.com/FABevent2
Webinar on “Climate change, women’s health and the fossil fuel influence”
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Crises in DRC
Join next Monday evening at UCT to shine a light on the struggle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our senior advisor, Sarah Robyn Farrell, will be participating on a panel discussion with Olivier Mulombo (UCC) and Alex Hotz (WOMIN). Experience thought-provoking discussions with our expert panel, soul-stirring poetry, and vibrant musical performances. Together, let’s raise awareness and stand in solidarity with the DRC and with the Congolese community in Cape Town.
Date: Monday 26 Aug
Time: 6pm
Venue: Chris Hani LT
All are welcome. Free entry.
#UCTforDRC#CongoAwareness#congoisbleeding
Rassemblons-nous lundi prochain à UCT pour mettre l’accent sur la continuation de la quête du Congo pour la liberté. Il y aura des discussions animées par des experts, qui nous invitent à y réfléchir, de la poésie qui parle à l’âme et l’esprit, aussi que des performances dynamiques. Ensemble, nous sommes solidaires de la RDC.
Date: lundi, le 26 août
Quand: 18h
Où: Chris Hani LT, campus nord
Defossilising UCT Divestment Training
UPCOMING EVENT‼️
Save the date, RSVP for in person or online attendance and share this with your friends to get involved in defossilising UCT!✊🏻
Join @fossilfreesa and @gci_uct for for a training session on the importance of divesting from fossil fuels and how to navigate advocacy for divestment within institutions🌍
We hope to see you there!
Palestine, Planet and Our People: Open Mic and Exhibition
Fossil Free South Africa is partnering with African Climate Alliance, Climate Justice Coalition, UCT4Palestine and South African Jews for a Free Palestine to bring you a day focusing on environmental activism in art forms within the Palestinian context. Various short talks, performances and art will be on display, as well as local vendors selling Palestinian inspired products. All tickets are free to purchase, with the option of donating to Gift of the Givers Foundation. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Link to book tickets via Quicket: https://qkt.io/DyL9tR
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Training
🌍 Ready to ignite transformation? Join us for the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Training!
🗒️ Learn about climate change, the history of fossil fuel divestment and SU’s fossil fuel ties. This is an opportunity to gain practical campaigning skills and join the global student activism movement!
Date: 1 August 2024
Location: 2nd floor, Victoria Hub, Stellenbosch Campus
Time: 18:00 to 21:00
This training is hosted in conjunction with UNASA Stellenbosch and EcoMaties. All students and interested parties welcome!
Link to register: RSVP
CCSA Cape Town Happy Hour
Attention Cape Town Creatives!
Join us for a CCSA Happy Hour next week Thursday!🥂
🗓️Date: July 18th
📍Where: Hudsons – The Burger Joint (Kloof Street)
⏰Time: 5:30 for 6pm
This is a fantastic networking opportunity for our community. Let’s connect, share ideas and enjoy some drinks together! We can’t wait to see you there!
Community Reboot and Annual General Meeting
Hello friends of Fossil Free SA,
Please join us for our Community Reboot and annual AGM on 13 July, 2024, from 10am to noon.
We’ll be screening “Temperature Rising”, a documentary set in Durban and Namibia, profiling the work of three passionate South African climate activists: Ina-Maria Shikongo, Kumi Naidoo, and Gabriel Klaasen.
This event will take place at Stoep Startup, 3 Tiverton Road, Plumstead, Cape Town. Light refreshments will be provided and you can join online on request (for the AGM portion), but we’d love to see you in person. We’ll also report on the progress we’ve made in the past year, and outline our current work.
Members of our statutory voluntary association will be able to vote on any business raised in the AGM, but we’ll keep formalities to a minimum. (If you’re a member, and there are any observations or queries you’d like to table at the AGM, please let us know in advance.)
Meanwhile, do read about our expanded team and projects in our latest prospectus.
We look forward to welcoming you on 13 July! Please RSVP here for catering purposes.
CCSA Johannesburg Happy Hour
Exciting News, Joburg Creatives!
Join us for a CCSA Happy Hour next week Thursday!
Date: July 11th
Location: Proud Mary, Rosebank
Time: 5:30 for 6pm
This is a fantastic networking opportunity for our community. Let’s connect, share ideas, and enjoy some drinks together! We can’t wait to meet all of you!
Genocide in Gaza: Environmental and Colonial Lenses (online panel discussion)
Join our online panel discussion looking at the various environmental and colonial lenses of the genocide in Gaza.
🗓️ Thursday, 11 July
🕕 18:00
Panelists: Fadi Quran (Avaaz), Nina Lakhani (The Guardian US), and Tara Nair van Ryneveld (SAFCEI).
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/FFSAGaza1
Women for Change: Uniting Business and Climate Leaders for a Sustainable Future: Webinar
📢 SHE Changes Climate and Clean Creatives SA are hosting a webinar titled “Women for Change: Uniting Business and Climate Leaders for a Sustainable Future” as we celebrate International Women’s Day in March.
🗓️Saturday 9th March
🕚11 am - 12:15 pm SAST
Register now to join us in discussing the conversation surrounding shaping the next decade of women’s leadership in combating the climate crisis.
🔗 Eventbrite link on @cleancreatives_SA Instagram page.
Clean Creatives Happy Hour
We would love you to join us for Clean Creatives Happy Hour next week, 4th October, during the start of Loeries Creative Week to chat about how we can make the creatives and agencies who attend the Loerie Awards aware of the impact they have on the climate crisis - especially during a time where the global temperature has reached an all time high and we are experiencing devastating phenomena like the recent Cape Storm.
We will also release the first local edition of the F-list report listing South African agencies working for fossil fuel companies.
The first 15 people to secure their tickets will get a free drink on us!
Bookings via Quicket.
Terrible Twins: Finance and Fossil Fuels
📣It’s almost time for the second edition of Cape Town Climate Week: 18 – 22 September 2023
🌱We believe that climate justice is plural and intersectional. There are so many ways to care for people and the planet. Embracing these different ways makes this movement more inclusive, accessible, and powerful.
✊Cape Town Climate Week is a week-long annual event dedicated to raising awareness about the need for system change as a pathway to address climate change and its related social and political injustices.
Cape Town Climate Week 2023 will focus on five thematic areas:
🚲 Transport
💡 Energy and water
🥬 Food
💵 Finance
🎨 Artivism
✨Each day will be filled with workshops, activations, talks, gardening, and more.
⭐️The thematic areas of Cape Town Climate Week 2023 reflect the complex and multifaceted nature of the climate crisis in South Africa and the need for innovative solutions that take into account the country's unique socio-economic and cultural context. By exploring these thematic areas, Cape Town Climate Week 2023 aims to promote dialogue, collaboration and, fun, and dynamic action towards building a sustainable and just future in South Africa.
🌍We hope to see you at one or all of the events as we create pathways for system change, together!
Unleashing Creativity for Climate Action
Join us for the “Unleashing Creativity for Climate Action” event during Cape Town Climate Week with the @africanclimatealliance!🌍
We're hosting a dynamic discussion about creativity and climate change with an incredible panel, exploring how we can join forces to bring about change 🤝
But that's not all!🏆 We will also be revealing the winner of the Creative Cleanup 2023 Schools Challenge, celebrating the innovative ideas that creative young minds are bringing to the climate movement!
🗓️ Mark your calendars for Wednesday, 20 September, 5:30PM for 6PM - 7PM SAST (GMT+2)/Webinar: 6PM - 7 PM. You can join us either online or in person at the KAYA Cafe, 35 Loop Street, Cape Town. RSVP link in bio.
Money Talk: Redefining Investments for Justice and Sustainability
We invite you to join us to spend 67 minutes honouring Mandela’s legacy by learning about how your investments can build the more just and sustainable world that we all want:
When: 18 July (Mandela Day) at 13:00
Where: Online - register at bit.ly/ffsamoneytalk
We are excited to have Ashley Daswa of Sanlam and financial adviser Brad McWalter joining FFSA's David Le Page as speakers for this event, part of our broader #InvestFossilFree campaign for fossil fuel-free investment options from our top asset managers.
You can read more about the speakers here:
https://fossilfreesa.org.za/2023/07/11/web-event-money-talks-redefining-our-investments-for-justice-and-sustainability/
Fossil Ad Ban Launch
Cities around the world are adopting fossil fuel advertising bans in light of the growing climate emergency and the long history of denial, delay and disinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry about climate change.
Cape Town, as a member of the C40 Cities, a global network of mayors taking urgent action to confront the climate crisis, should take action to ban advertising and sponsorships promoting harmful fossil fuels from our public spaces.
Join our launch webinar next Wednesday at 11am CAT here: https://bit.ly/FossilFreeAdBanLaunch
Motion Meetup with Motion Design CPT
Stephen Horn, Clean Creatives SA Director, will be introducing the campaign as a surprise guest speaker at Motion Design CPT’s Motion Meetup.
@clean_creatives is a global campaign bringing creatives, agencies and their clients together to tackle the climate crisis. Over 500 agencies and 1000 individual creatives (including our very own director of MDCPT @gabi_jardine ) have signed the Clean Creatives pledge to decline future work from fossil fuel companies. Launched in South Africa last year, the movement is building momentum locally as more and more creatives realise that the future of creativity is clean. 🌍
Stephen Horn is a SAFTA-winning creative director with 10+ years in media and digital content production. He created South African satirical news show, Politically Aweh, and was recognised in the 2022 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans list for his work in climate change communication. 🔥
Durban Meetup
We are hosting a talk and tea/coffee networking event about the role of PR/advertising and climate change in Durban. Join us to learn more and meet other advertising, PR and creative professionals concerned about climate change. Please RSVP via email or DM on @cleancreatives_SA Instagram page.
Clean Creatives Happy Hour
Join us for a casual end of year happy hour at @the_electric_sa next Tuesday 29 November from 5:30pm. Already a @CleanCreatives pledge signer? Or interested to learn more? Come along to network, swap ideas and meet fellow creatives!
The Climate is Changing, is Advertising?
Loeries Creative Week 2022 is officially underway! As agencies, creatives and media professionals, how are we contributing to the climate crisis? How can we be a part of the solution? Join us for an evening of conversation on Wednesday at @the_electric_sa.
Investing in our Future, Divesting from Fossil Fuels: Panel Discussion
We are hosting a panel discussion between Stellenbosch University personnel and accredited guest speakers on the 20th of September to discuss the possibility of divesting from fossil fuels. We are extremely pleased to announce our panelists which ranges from economists, climate scientists and activists.
RSVP with the link in our bio.
Hope to see you there!
Media launch of the Fossil Free SA Climate Reporting Guide for SA
Join journalists, students, scientists and celebrated science writer Leonie Joubert for the online launch of Fossil Free South Africa’s Climate Reporting Guide for SA Media.
Zoom RSVP: bit.ly/FFSA-climate-guide-launch
Why: ‘Half of humanity is in the danger zone, from floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires. No nation is immune. Yet we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction. We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.‘ – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Divest UCT Protest
We invite you to join UCT students, alumni, and the Fossil Free South Africa community to take part in this pivotal moment in the campaign to get UCT to Divest from Fossil Fuels. Send an email expressing your support for fossil fuel divestment to upri-group@uct.ac.za by 14 May at the latest. ✉️
For those that are in Cape Town, we also invite you to join us for a protest at UCT on Tuesday 11 May at 1pm. (spaces are limited due to covid-19 precaution.) 🏛
Register here: http://bit.ly/uctmayprotest
Webinar and Campaign Update: UCT
DIVEST ❌
Fossil Free UCT is hosting a webinar on Wednesday 11 November at 19h30 to share updates on the ongoing campaign for UCT to divest from fossil fuels.
This is an update on the meeting with the responsible investment panel and we really encourage all our members and UCT students and staff to join us!
A high-level dialogue for a sustainable investment landscape
Join UCT for a critical dialogue on responsible investment on Wednesday, 19 August 2020 from 14:00 to 15:30 SAST.
The high-level dialogue for a sustainable investment landscape will ask: “What does optimal investor action look like to achieve the Paris COP GHG emission reduction targets by 2050?”. Read more: https://bit.ly/33OSrog
Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind: Online Divestment Workshop
Want to learn more about Divestment? Then save these dates ‼️💰
Next week Wednesday and Thursday we'll be hosting an online workshop about what divestment is, how it works and why it's important in light of the current climate crisis. Each day will have different topics relating to divestment and there will be Q&A sessions with each speaker after every talk. Keen? Sign-up using the link in our bio 👆🏼
Have a friend that you think may be interested? This workshop is open to ANYONE (not exclusive to UCT), so please share!