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December 2014Member Newsletter

Turning Passion Into Activism

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Editorial Team Fiona Musana, Lerato Tsotetsi, Celehte Wymers, Mbong Akiy, Hellen Dena

Contributors Dianne Mc Alpine, Reatlegile Lekalakala, Ahmed Diame, Irene Wabiwa, Taahir Chagan, Nasreen Khan, Dylan Barsby, Wendy Damerell, Melita Steele, Susan Nakacwa, Hellen Dena.

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Published December 2014 Greenpeace AfricaPrinted on 100% recycled paper with vegetable inksGreenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action!Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.Greenpeace has been working in Africa to end environmental destruction and fighting for the right of Africans to a healthy environment since the early 1990s.Campaigns focus on climate change, destruction of forests, ecological farming and stopping the stripping of life from the oceans.For more information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

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The Last Desert Race – David Barnard 4The Poisoned People – Melita Steele 6Engaging with fisherman communities – Ahmed Diame 8Lending a voice – Irene Wabiwa Betoko 10Growing food for life in Africa – Taahir Chagan 12A year in volunteer mobilisation – Dianne Mc Alpine 14Volunteers – in their words 18Message to our friends – Hellen Dena 22Sign up page 23

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The Last Desert RaceBy David Barnard

My name is David Barnard, Vice-President for Africa at TechSoup Global, and member of the Africa Policy Advisory Board of the ONE Campaign. I run desert races around the world in support of social causes and campaigns dedicated to development issues in Africa.

It is not only about the personal challenge associated with participation in desert races, but the use of these events to raise awareness about critical issues which impact all of us.

My most recent desert running adventure was the Last Desert Race. I ran from the 4th to the 8th of November 2014 in Antarctica. Running this race was always on my “bucket list”, and I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity.

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Antarctica is unique and beautiful in so many ways, and I will treasure this experience forever. Running in Antarctica was tough given the soft snow, strong winds and sub-zero temperatures which we experienced for most of the race. The fourth stage of the race was cancelled because the weather at sea was so rough that we could not get off the ship, while the conditions on land were also not conducive for running.

But despite the running conditions, surrounded by penguin colonies, seals, a diverse range of birds, ice bergs and snow-capped mountains, you soon realise the privilege of spending time in Antarctica.

I finished the race in 15th position overall out of 69 competitors, and feel very pleased with my performance.

However, my participation in the Last Desert Race was always about more than running in the snow in Antarctica. I have dedicated my participation in the race to the work of Greenpeace Africa.

My association with Greenpeace Africa over the past eight months has increased my awareness and understanding of the many global environmental challenges facing all of us. Antarctica is a key factor in this equation. Climate change is already impacting on Antarctica – significant melting of ice on the western side – and acceleration in this trend will contribute to further global climate change and related consequences.

Climate change is a complex issue with many contributing factors, and it is important for all South Africans to understand how it will impact us in future unless we all start doing something to reverse this situation.

But, beyond raising awareness about the problems and causes of climate change, it is also important to raise awareness about alternative and renewable energy sources. I’m therefore very pleased that the fundraising campaign linked to my participation in the race will contribute to the implementation of a solar street lights project in Diepsloot, Johannesburg. The project will create a sense of community safety and empower people living in an area without electricity.

We are aiming to raise R 250 000 and you still have an opportunity to make a contribution – visit http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/Antarctic/ - and follow the links from there.

Thank you for all the encouragement and well wishes before and during the race, and I hope to continue supporting the work of Greenpeace Africa with my future desert running adventures.


The Poisoned PeopleBy Melita Steele

The current electricity crisis in South Africa has made us much more aware of how our energy system is failing us. However, it is sometimes hard to make the leap from anger at a system that is not delivering reliable electricity to the source of almost all of that electricity; coal.

An estimated 90% of this country’s electricity comes from coal power stations, which are hugely polluting and water intensive: Eskom uses an estimated 10 000 litres of water per second to keep the coal power stations running.

But behind the figures and shocking statistics, there is a human face to South Africa’s coal addiction, and it belongs to the thousands of the people who live with the daily reality of coal in their communities. This is something that we simply cannot afford to ignore any longer. Coal has real hidden costs, and those costs can be counted in human lives, not just the destruction of our environment. Unfortunately, it’s fairly easy to ignore what it means for a country to be so addicted to coal, because most of us have never been to the coalfields, or spoken with people who live next to a coal mine, or a coal-fired power station.

As a result of extensive fieldwork to gather people’s testimonials, in 2014 Greenpeace launched a powerful photographic exhibition in Johannesburg entitled ‘The Poisoned People’, which featured portraits of the people we spoke with, combined with summaries of their stories, and images that depict the daily realities in the country’s coalfields. We combined this with a controversial billboard placed in a prominent area in Johannesburg, surrounding areas and identical posters online.

The exhibition opening featured three community members from Mpumalanga, who spoke very eloquently of harrowing daily realities in the country’s coalfields.

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Our air quality legislation is currently under assault from the country’s biggest polluters. New Minimum Emission Standards are set to come into effect in 2015, which would mean that polluters like Eskom and Sasol would have to start using new pollution reduction equipment. Unfortunately, rather than driving compliance, polluters are seeing the new legislation as a threat to their profits.

The utility says that complying with the law is too expensive with too few benefits. However, research shows that air pollution from Eskom’s coal power plants are currently causing an estimated 2 200 premature deaths per year. This includes approximately 200 deaths of young children.

The people exposed to the constant air pollution from coal suffer from chronic respiratory problems, such as bronchitis, asthma and pneumonia, but heart disease and strokes may also be caused. Some of the by-products from coal are actually carcinogenic, and have been known to cause cancer. It is commonly known that miners quite frequently suffer from lung disease.

Greenpeace believes that at a minimum, every polluter must comply with air quality legislation put in place to protect human health, and full compliance with the Minimum Emission Standards must be required. Pollution knows no boundaries, and we are not safe from coal simply because we don’t live near a coal power station.

Decisions to continue to invest in coal affect us all, and an injury to one, should be an injury to all. There is a better way, and it involves turning away from coal, and starting to put investments somewhere safe: into renewable energy and energy efficiency. Only then can we move a little closer to social and environmental justice that we seek.


Engaging with fisherman communities: the way to go to preserve our oceansBy Ahmed Diame

Browsing through the Greenpeace photo gallery, I am always attracted by the photos showing our activists working alongside communities to defend what we hold most dear; our right to live decently on this planet and our duty to leave it to future generations in good condition.

In Senegal and to some extent West Africa, the Oceans campaign for Greenpeace Africa, which was launched in September 2010, has made this collaboration with communities a priority and it pays!

If you can recall in 2012, the extraordinary victory achieved against foreign pelagic trawlers which were depleting Senegalese oceans was welcomed by all supporters of Greenpeace and a success throughout the organization.

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More recently, the strong mobilization of Greenpeace and PAPAS (Platform for Actors in Artisanal Fisheries), a forum which brings together different fishing communities, to denounce the new partnership agreement on fisheries between Senegal and the European Union is another example. Under our combined pressure, the government of Senegal and the European Union promised to reconsider some terms of the agreement.

But this is more than a collaboration between Greenpeace Africa and Senegalese fishermen communities, it is “a family” affair. It is through this collaboration that PAPAS was created and is imposing its brands among professional organizations involved in the fisheries sector.

We are proud that as members of a family, Greenpeace Africa and Senegalese fishermen pulled their resources and ideas together to defend the fisheries upon which millions of people depend on.

For us, this is of course a great experience which imposes new attitudes and gives us new skills: listening, sharing, dialogue and openness. Something which Greenpeace Africa has rightly grown from.

‘Fish Fairly’ Week of Action in Senegal



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Lending a voice By Irene Wabiwa Betoko

Greenpeace in an organization designed to try and overcome environmental injustices, with the networks of millions of supporters, volunteers and partners worldwide. But in our work in Central Africa we have also discovered that the best way to approach such large issues is at the source, and through a series of small but well-targeted steps.

This means working at grassroots level, working with local communities and local partner organisations. We believe that by focusing on individual challenges facing individual communities in Africa, we can help disseminate wider issues to different audiences.

Together with other NGOs, forest communities, researchers, supporters and activists we believe that power holders, governments and corporations should commit to a policy of No Deforestation and take decisions that always reflect our own principles of placing “people and forests first”.

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International demand for timber and minerals, coupled with political instability within the continent has provoked widespread thoughts throughout the last few decades. Another new threat to Africa’s trees now looms in the expansion of large-scale palm oil plantations.

The links between devastating levels of deforestation in countries including Indonesia and Malaysia and industrial levels of palm oil production are well established. Such environmental destruction is an eminent possibility for Africa unless this new wave of production is done and managed responsibly.

In a recent report 56.2m hectares of land deals were identified as having taken place in sub-Saharan African since 2000 and recent research conducted by Greenpeace International identified an area of more than 2.6m hectares in 10 western and central African countries that is either earmarked or already home to large-scale oil palm plantation projects.

Put in plain terms that is a lot of land, and a lot of it is forested. And following the logic, a lot of people live in those forests and rely on them for their livelihoods. Yet too often these people are the last to have a say in what is done with their land.

One palm oil project Greenpeace is campaigning against is being pushed forward by the US agribusiness company Herakles Farms in South West region in Cameroon. The company operated without a valid land lease for more than three years before being granted one for 20,000 hectares – vastly reduced from the 70,000 hectares they were originally targeting.

Greenpeace has been working with local Cameroonian NGOs including Sefe, Nature Cameroon, and CED to help inform villages of what is really at stake if the Herakles project is allowed to continue. They are being paid rates vastly under the true value of their land and have access to legal recourse that they previously did not realize they did.

Intimidation of NGOs is also a popular tactic in the area. Be it through the courts or through violence. In DRC one of our local partners is currently facing charges as well as the NGO Sefe in the Cameroon for protesting against Herakles Farms. Sefe’s founder, Nasako Besingi was also attacked by employees of the company’s local subsidiary. Nature Cameroon, another NGO, has been suspended for the “crime” of daring to organize a meeting to allow residents to hear what is happening to their land and livelihoods.

Such incidents and intimidation can be found across Africa. It is only when organisations such as Greenpeace, Global Witness and other NGOs use our resources to give these organisations and these people a wider voice so they can be heard further afield. Maybe only then will they feel that they are not alone and can take steps to protect their environment, protect their forests, protect their livelihoods and have their voice heard.

For this reason Greenpeace Africa will continue to work with communities in Africa.

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Growing food for life in AfricaBy Taahir Chagan

“What can I do to make a change?” You ask. Well, many of us have three chances to make a difference everyday: breakfast, lunch, and supper. This mindset is empowering. It reminds us that by choosing what kinds of food we eat, we choose the kind of farming we want to see in Africa.

We are increasingly disconnected from where our food is cultivated and where we buy it. For most of us, the supermarket is the one-stop solution to all our problems. Many of our children don’t even know what soil looks like anymore, nor do they know about the treasures that can spring from a garden.

Because the destruction of our environment is hidden from many of us, we never find out about it.

Industrial Agriculture, just like mining, takes what it wants from the land without replacing it, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Whether we are talking about the contamination of our water or the poisoning of our soils, this mechanised and chemical-intensive model of agriculture works against nature.

It only serves to benefit big food companies and their agenda of increasing corporate control of our food. This leaves Africa’s small-scale farmers – who are mostly women – vulnerable to a kind of slavery, where they are forced to go into debt to buy more and more of these company’s chemical inputs.

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What is the solution?Well, the Earth’s natural model for growing food is not only more sophisticated; it is also elegant and harmonious.

Ecological Farming works with nature, and uses farmer’s knowledge instead of chemical inputs to create abundance. This kind of farming is beneficial for people as well as for the environment. There are clear cases of the greater financial benefits of using ecological farming for small-scale farmers in Africa.

Here are some practical ways that you can turn your passion into a force for change to support ecological farming:

Cook: There is something about cooking that we intuitively feel is very fundamental to our human experience. Re-igniting your passion for cooking is fun, and it can also help you improve your diet and your health.

Ditch the supermarket for your local farmers market. By doing this, you are going straight to the producer. Buying local produce also supports local farmers, cutting down on transport and packaging which use fossil fuels and which often make our food more expensive.

When you do shop at a supermarket, be aware of what exactly is inside your food. Check the labels for any trace of foods that have been genetically engineered. Check how the food was cultivated, and if it is locally grown.

Create awareness about these issues by spreading the word in your own network. You can start by encouraging your family, friends, and colleagues to make the change. They can help grow the market for ecologically farmed food in Africa.

You are the hero and the champion, and your passion is the power that is driving ecological farming in Africa. Thank You for your support.


A year in volunteer mobilisationBy Dianne Mc Alpine

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There is an African Proverb which goes:“If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together”

I cannot think of a better way to summarise a great year spent collaborating with organisations who are also deeply invested in protecting the environment and all that depend on it. From youth groups, to individuals, Earth pageants to mass tree-planters, we have been fortunate enough to learn from each of these parts that make a whole - and we’re inviting you to join us next year!

The youth will lead the way!This year we started off our journey with The Johannesburg Junior Council (JJC) Environmental Committee. The JJC is presently comprised of 72 junior councillors all of whom are Grade 11 students, nominated by 36 secondary schools in the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan area. One of the objectives is to inspire future leaders, and make environmental education a norm in schools.

Being a Green BeingFor World Water day we joined Green Beings to rehabilitate the Jukskei river, and again in September in support of Arbour week, during which we visited schools in Cosmo City to plant trees and speak about their importance. In October we celebrated National Clean up week, by visiting the schools and sharing UpCycling initiatives and our Bags for Life campaign. Green Beings, a team of 3 dedicated individuals develops schools into models that demonstrate sustainable living and act as vehicles to integrate knowledge and skills into communities. The work that this group does is inspiring, and we can all take a leaf from their book.

Pretty Green!Every now and then we swap the computers and the banner making for some shoulder-rubbing with the ladies from Miss Earth. This is a leadership programme that aims to empower young South African women with the knowledge and the platform to create a sustainable difference in our plight to combat the destruction of our natural heritage. This year one of our dedicated volunteers, Michillay Brown, was awarded the 2014 Miss Earth second princess title- we couldn’t be prouder!


“There is no away” Think about this the next time you pop that bin lid- where does your waste end up? If you’re recycling (and you should be) hopefully the things you chuck end up as recycled or even better UP cycled products! Upcycle have been working closely with many companies to provide them with solutions to their waste issues. In September, they hosted us during the Arbour day Tree of Life Mosaic activity in Booysens, a fantastic way to see waste turn into WOW! Start looking at your waste in a different way, it’s easy, fun, and the planet will thank you later., changing minds

Gone Planting - be back soon!We joined the Treevolution with Greenpop for their Platbos reforest weekends and again in September for their Hogsback reforest event. These events boast an estimated total of 12 500 trees planted! For those not in the know Greenpop is a social business that believes greening and sustainable living can be fun, POPular and accessible for all. Join the Treevolution today, you will definitely not be sorry!

Building Each otherIt’s one thing to drop banners and another thing entirely to know how to plant and nurture your own food garden! Thanks to the team at the Siyakhana Initiative, a WITS owned organization that aims to combat food insecurity through collaborative training and education, we have been able to learn so much as individuals; making flower beds, the no flush-loo and of course, the benefits of permaculture. Definitely an initiative to celebrate!

Last wordsI often say that what really makes this organisation tick is our volunteers. With each day that passes I am reminded about the passion and strength in these individuals. I am often left in awe of their skills and their relentless work; whether they are helping out with our administrative tasks, painting banners, taking part in a protest or organising movie night - they make us who we are!

2014 has certainly been a busy year. I am happy that we are slowly winding down, but I am also so excited to do it all again next year - this time even bigger and better!


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Volunteers – in their words Earth-care. People care. By Nasreen Khan

“Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labour; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.” - Bill Mollison

On Earth Day this year Greenpeace Durban together with EarthLife Africa eThekwini, Citi-Zen Gardens, and Green Squad Alliance worked together to bring the GP-Durban volunteers an incredible, team building and skills-sharing permaculture workshop. The workshop included both theory and practical components, and was intended to up-skill volunteers, so that they can utilise the knowledge practically in future activities.

The word permaculture was born from the term PERMAnent agriCULTURE. It is a global movement towards living a holistic way of life by working with nature and its finite resources, to create sustainable food growing methods.

The vision of these workshops are to slowly build skills and confidence in volunteers, based on the concept: ‘teaching the teachers’. Imparting knowledge is crucial in capacity and capability building among volunteers, providing the opportunity for them to one-day lead future permaculture projects.

By end of next year, we envision activities being undertaken in previously disadvantaged schools, eco-schools, rural areas, and vacant under-utilised urban areas. Ideally there should be spill-over of theoretical and practical skills among resident team leaders at focus-areas, to ensure sustainability of each and every project.

The seeds have been planted, let’s watch this initiative grow! :)

For more info on the days events, find the blog ‘Ecology starts with you’ by a fellow Greenpeace volunteer Nokwazi Qumbisa on www.greenpeaceafrica.org. For current projects, find Morningside Peace Garden by Citi-Zen Gardens on Facebook.


The future is in our handsBy Dylan Barsby

“I was lucky enough to form part of the volunteer crew manning the Greenpeace Africa stand in this year’s Rocking The Daisies - Green Village hosted by the awesome Greenpop. It was a privilege to share space with inspiring organizations like Hemporium, Movember, Reliance Compost, Sunfire Solar Cookers, Greyton Transition Town and more. I’m happy to say that, after having done this four times previously, this was by far the best and busiest experience we’ve had, signing up another 128 new volunteer hopefuls from different spots around SA and having so many great conversations about Greenpeace’s work in Africa that I lost my voice! The interest and enthusiasm from younger people was heartening and left me excited for the future of Greenpeace volunteer opportunities in SA. I look forward to an even better one next year.”


Ocean Plastic Table By Wendy Damerell

For the weekend incorporating World Ocean Day in June, we ran our ‘Ocean Plastic Awareness’ table in Cape Town’s Blue Route Mall. Plastic packets were evident and while only a small number of shoppers visited Greenpeace’s table, folk were greatly impacted. We showed a map of the five continents of plastic in the world’s oceans, explaining their devastating impact on marine creatures and ultimately, us. Exhibits included a bottle of shower gel, with microbeads.

Mouths hung open in disbelief as information sank in. One elderly gent departed with a ‘5 Gyres’ map, to display at his local library – a heartfelt gesture. A twelve year old from a nearby township, vowed to do a project in her community, where littering is rife, then e-mail me, about it.

We handed out cards to everybody, with the websites, encouraging people to do more of their own research, spread the message and generate creative ideas, to ensure less plastic ends up in Cape Town’s rivers and oceans.

‘Ocean Plastic Awareness’ was a success! Well worth repeating, in different areas of Cape Town, then taking it to smaller, coastal resort towns.

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Being a volunteer at Greenpeace By Reatlagile Lekalakala

Volunteering for Greenpeace has helped me get one step closer to doing what I greatly believe in. That’s to make sure that our planet is well looked after and appreciated, that we live in harmony with the rest of our planet.

My time here has been one remarkable journey and the highlight has to be the school talks that I did during arbour week, together with the Green Beings team and my fellow volunteers. It was not just us talking at the learner and making them feel horrible about kicking that tree on their way to school in the morning. To me it was about us planting a seed that I believe, if nourished, will blossom into great leaders of tomorrow, leaders that are environmentally aware and determined to make a difference.

Seeing the learners so eager to learn and listen to what I had to say to them got me ready to do more. I realised that it was my responsibility to do all that I can to make sure that the world knows of the environmental tragedies we are facing.

I am proud to be a part of an organization that is strong enough to make a difference but also smart enough to know that we cannot do it on our own. By educating the youth of South Africa, our future leaders, we are one step closer to living in a world were leaders know how to make right choices, not only for economic and social development but for the environment too.


Message to our friendsBy Hellen Dena

You are our hero.This past year has been a pivotal year in the history of Greenpeace Africa. A year that was marked with a lot of changes in both structure and ways of working.

Amidst the challenges brought about by these changes Greenpeace Africa has remained fit for purpose on what we do. This can be evidenced in all our campaign successes.

What has allowed our efforts to be so successful? In one word…SUPPORTERS. With your eminent support Greenpeace Africa has continued to position itself as an expert in environmental justice issues on the continent. We continue to put a human face to all our campaigns in a bid to bring positive change in the communities where we work.

While we are proud of what we have been able to achieve, we want to acknowledge the real forces behind this victory….you! You are our hero in this fight against those who would otherwise recklessly plunder our oceans, tear down forests, and pollute our precious rivers.

We say a heartfelt THANK YOU for partnering with us.

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