Earthlife Africa Johannesburg

07/10/2026

02/10/2026

We came to NERSA ZA with more than placards. We came with submissions. ✊📄Today, grassroots organisations and community forums handed over their comments on Eskom Hld SOC Ltd’s Sixth Multi-Year Price Determination . These demands come from communities already struggling to keep the lights on. Our submissions are in. Now NERSA must listen. 👂✊

Communities are demanding:
⚡ No more unaffordable tariff increases
💡 Stronger Free Basic Electricity
🏠 Affordable electricity for all
☀️ Community-owned
🔎 Transparency and accountability
📢 Meaningful public participation
🌱 A people-centred just transition

Department of Electricity and Energy

02/10/2026

TUNE IN: 🎙️⚡ The fight for affordable electricity doesn’t stop at NERSA. Catch Ulrich Udo Steenkamp on 📻 Radio Atlantis 107.9FM as he unpacks why communities are challenging Eskom Hld SOC Ltd’s proposed tariff hikes and demanding energy justice for all.
🔥 People before profit. ⚡ Affordable electricity. 🌍 A just energy future.
Tune in Monday!

02/10/2026

⚡ How much profit is enough when families are struggling to keep the lights on? Today, communities joined Earthlife Africa in Pretoria to oppose Eskom Hld SOC Ltd’s proposed tariff increases. As living costs rise, households should not have to choose between electricity and other basic needs. 📢 We delivered our submissions, our demands and the voices of the people most affected. NERSA ZA must put people before profit.

02/10/2026

📍Today in , joined by community activists from grassroots organisations and community forums, we gathered outside NERSA ZA’s Head Office to oppose Eskom Hld SOC Ltd’s proposed electricity tariff increases. ⚡ is not a luxury. It is essential for cooking, studying, working, communicating and living with dignity. As households face rising food, transport and living costs, many are being forced to choose between electricity and food. That is not energy justice. 🤝 Today, we hit the pavement outside Nersa to demand that electricity is affordable, reliable and accessible to all. There's still time to submit your own comments... Department of Electricity and Energy Presidential Climate Commission

22/09/2026

💬 From Dialogue to Action – the breakaway sessions create a valuable space for participants to share experiences, challenge ideas, and collectively imagine a better future. Together, we are mapping our realities, exploring the meaning of a , as well as discussing energy access and community power. Together, we aim to develop community-driven visions for sustainable development.

These conversations highlight an important truth: meaningful change happens when communities are empowered to define their own future. Every voice helps shape the path towards a more equitable and sustainable future.
Presidential Climate Commission Thabo Sibeko

22/09/2026

Today, we're hosting a community-led workshop at the Just Transition Centre . This is important for information-sharing and ensuring that even those people living in rural areas know and understand how a just transition can address . These are the types of workshops we should be seeing a lot more of, around the country - spaces where people can go to get a better understanding of why and how climate change affects us and what we can do to adapt and mitigate. Also to understand what should be expected from government and what we could be doing ourselves, on the ground. Presidential Climate Commission Thabo Sibeko

22/09/2026

Sometimes, a starts with creating more safe spaces for women. ✊🏾🌍Yesterday in Malale, after assembling their equipment, women gathered to see exactly how their will put the sun to work. ☀️🏾It’s about more than the technology. It’s about using our imagination to innovate even more – to create technologies that don’t harm our environment, that can be adapted for local realities and that also create safer everyday experiences for women.

This is why we launched the Community Just Transition Centre – to ensure that women have a meaningful say in the solutions shaping their communities and their future. Because a just transition should . ✊🏾 Thabo Sibeko Dzomo La Mupo "Voice of the Earth"

22/09/2026

Yesterday, we were at the Community Just Transition Centre . Our mission to ensure that women are included and heard in the , continues. As part of this ongoing community-led campaign, community members came together to learn how to assemble, maintain and safely use their new☀️ . This work is about more than introducing a new technology. It is about ensuring are informed, empowered and meaningfully included in shaping the plans that affect their lives, livelihoods and future.

For women in particular, access to safer energy solutions is an important part of creating a just transition that responds to lived realities – while ensuring women are included in shaping the solutions to climate change. A just transition must be community-led, inclusive and equitable. 🌍 Presidential Climate Commission Thabo Sibeko Dzomo La Mupo "Voice of the Earth" Pepper Bark Environmental and Development NPC Thompho Mudau

21/09/2026

READ: Over 100 solar cookers delivered! ☀️🍲This is a major milestone in our community clean energy drive – more than 100 rural households across roughly 10 villages in Lephalale and Venda, Limpopo now cook using the sun! This initiative is about much more than just distributing technology. By partnering with local groups like the Mulambwane Women's League, Bopanang Women's Organisation, and Ithuteng Community Organisation, we ensure that local women are directly trained to assemble, use, and maintain these units.

For these families, the impact is immediate:
• Lower cooking costs by reducing reliance on expensive purchased fuels.
• Safer homes with reduced exposure to harmful indoor air pollution.
• Empowered communities where women lead and shape local energy solutions.

This is what a true looks like on the ground – small-scale, practical solutions that directly fight energy poverty. Green Building Africa

More than 100 rural households across around 10 villages in Lephalale and Venda now use solar cookers distributed since October 2025, reporting cleaner,