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September 2017 For In this issue groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental 3 From the Smoke Stack organization working primarily in South Africa, but increasingly in Southern 5 Marikana Statement Africa. groundWork seeks to improve the 7 Waste Pickers: Building movement quality of life of vulnerable people in 10 SAWPA Meeting Statement Southern Africa through assisting civil From the Smoke Stack Photo by FoE society to have a greater impact on 12 National Coal Exchange environmental governanace. groundWork by groundWork Director, Bobby Peek places particular emphasis on assisting 14 Animal farm vulnerable and previously disadvantaged people who are most affected by 16 Africa bucking the trend environmental injustices. groundWork’s current campaign areas 18 Unintended POPs I am writing this as I sit in a cold and wet Cape that we need accountability and “not another are: Climate Justice and Energy, Coal, Town, getting ready to address parliament with commission of enquiry that will hold the truth back Waste and Environmental Health. 20 Climate Justice = Open Borders community people from around the country who for many years, but rather direct action against the groundWork is constituted as a trust. The Chairperson of the Board of 22 Sweden’s recycling rubbish? are challenging the devastation caused by coal. “We Minister of Safety and Security and the Presidency Trustees is Joy Kistnasamy, lecturer exist to resist” is a slogan I came across recently for allowing this process to get to this stage.” We in environmental health at the Durban 24 Closing spaces which conveyed to me the critical importance of wait. We resist. University of Technology. The other our work within various movements. And, indeed, And, despite the sad backdrop of Marikana, trustees are: Farid Esack, Patrick Kulati, 26 Greenfly with trash the mechanics of nature is one of resistance, so Africans are challenging and resisting – in various Richard Lyster, Sandile Ndawonde and it is not a major intellectual leap that gets us to 27 Africa resisting spaces in Africa and globally. And it is a privilege Jon White. recognise that, as society, we are in a constant that groundWork finds itself in various interesting 28 Mining is not part of development process of resistance. And indeed, resistance must groundWork’s STAFF ARE: spaces, not only in South Africa, but beyond the not be viewed as negative but as a building process Director: Bobby Peek continent as well. Deputy Director: Gill Addison Help us spread the word towards a world that is free of the environmental Administrative Assistant: Bathoko Sibisi www.facebook.com/groundWorkSA and social injustices that we witness daily. So this The last three months – July to September – has Waste Campaign Manager: Musa newsletter incorporates a slight leaning toward been a very busy period with strategic meetings Chamane highlighting “Africans Resisting”. to galvanise resistance. From the Break Free from Coal Campaign Manager: Robby Plastics strategy meeting in Bali, with those resisting www.twitter.com/groundwork.SA It was not difficult to get to the focus of “Africans Mokgalaka plastics production from around the world, which Resisting”, considering that this period covered Environmental Health Campaign we will report on in our next newsletter as this Manager: Rico Euripidou @groundWorkSA the fifth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre. process gathers more momentum, to the South Campaign Research and Technical Nothing has changed for the people of the area or African Waste Pickers Association’s fourth Biennial Assistant: Niven Reddy the workers. Poverty still prevails. And at one level AFFILIATIONS: meeting, which was an interesting experience in true Global Green and Healthy Hospital the people of the area are taking on the struggle and (GGHH) Network Campaign Manager: groundWork is affiliated to the following international democracy. From a community coal exchange to the pain for all South Africans living in poverty. They Luqman Yesufu organizations: Newcastle – in South Africa not the UK or Australia have chosen not to accept government hand-outs Climate and Energy Justice Health Care Without Harm – which highlighted to the many community people in the form of housing. For the people of the area, Campaigner: Samuel Chademana International POPs Elimination Network who took part in the exchange the usual devastation Community Activist: Thomas Mnguni poverty is not about housing, it is about changing Basel Action Network of coal, to a visit to the South African parliament – Media, Information and Publications the system, and piecemeal efforts are not going to Oilwatch International which we will report on in the next newsletter – to Campaign Manager: Nombulelo Shange be accepted. Changing the conditions for people Global Anti-Incineration Alliance let our decision makers know about our concerns Researcher: David Hallowes on the ground means delivering on the political Bookkeeper: Gill Waterworth International Coal Network on the devastation of coal. groundWork also promises of 1994, delivering on the corporate Break Free from Plastic visited hospitals in the copper belt of Kenya and HOW TO CONTACT US: promises that mining delivers for people and, above groundWork is the South African member of Friends of the Earth on the island of Madagascar, to share with them 6 Raven Street all else, it is about accountability for those who International strategies for improved waste management and Pietermaritzburg claim to be our leaders. We have to reflect on the P O Box 2375, Pietermaritzburg, 3200 CREDITS: mercury disposal. In the province of KwaZulu- words of local people: “Whatever happened on the Tel: 033-342-5662 Layout by Boutique Books – Printing by ArrowPrint Natal, at home, we have started working closely 16th of August 2012 is still happening daily. Nothing Fax: 033-342-5665 with community people and NGOs such as Church has changed.” So in this newsletter we re-publish e-mail: team@groundWork. org. za Land Programme and AFRA to better understand the words that we shared with the world on the Web: www. groundWork. org. za how we support the understanding of fracking by Marikana Massacre in August 2012. We warned groundWork remembers Marikana – Art by: Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson the communities and farmworkers who will lose - 2 - groundWork - Vol 19 No 3 - September 2017 - - Vol 19 No 3 - September 2017 - groundWork - 3 - Marikana Statement On the fifth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, nothing has changed for the people of the area or the workers. This statement, made at the time, therefore remains as relevant now as it was then their livelihoods and in some cases their land to the Finally, it has been an exhausting period over the Almost a week after the Marikana Massacre and strongest Congress of South African Trade Unions devastation of fracking. But gas is not only found last few months, as I have sat down to sign various in the midst of a week of mourning for those who (Cosatu) partners, to lose workers to a rival union, on land, it is also off-shore, and our resistance is affidavits to challenge government and corporates were tragically killed at the Lonmin mine, the the Association of Mineworkers and Construction here as well, where often the greed of corporations on their continual drive to expand the devastation groundWork team sends their condolences to the Union (AMCU). This could mean that the workers goes unnoticed as they devastate our seas in the of coal. Frustratingly, we have to turn to the courts families of the deceased and reflects on what this and their families might not vote for the ANC in the name of “development” – with the permission for our democracy, because we are not getting it series of events means for South Africa. next election. So it had to back NUM to ensure that of our democratically elected governments. So, from the institutions and people who promised us AMCU was not successfully organizing. AMCU was The absurd nature of South Africa’s democracy has indeed, a busy time. this. What can be said for a Minister who responds raising worker issues no doubt because NUM was been exposed by the brutal deaths of the forty- to your pleas on a way forward by saying that she not serving their needs: better working conditions But before I go ahead, a great thank you to all the two workers and two South African Police Service is too busy to engage with you? How busy is she and remuneration. guys in the office and community who put long members at Marikana. May we never forget the going to be when 500 pages of an affidavit land on hours into juggling multiple struggles, something painful events that culminated in the Marikana Even General Secretary of Cosatu Zwelinzima Vavi her desk? She could have avoided it by just talking to which groundWork has become accustomed. Massacre on the 16th of August. These events cannot admits that there may have been problems. The to us. We have also had some interesting folk joining us be seen in isolation, as only Lonmin’s continual Mail and Guardian reports that Vavi: “admitted for a few months. Ludwig Sonesson from Sweden I meet with community people resisting regularly – search for greater profits at the expense of workers, that Cosatu’s preoccupation with ANC politics is doing a four-month internship with us, through an honour I have through being a groundWorker and the worker struggles there, but rather in the is resulting in a growing distance between union Afrikagrupperna, and Zinzi Sibanda, who has – and feel the pain and frustration on the ground. context of a failed democracy and crumbling state, leaders and its membership”. Generally speaking, just finished her Masters in Environmental Law, Compromises have to be made. Sometimes, “us whose interest is tied up in protecting the wealth of this then translates into workers never being is making sure that we are all supported in the leftists” are caught in dogmatic positions.
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