SJI

The Social Justice Initiative mobilises resources and invests in initiatives that enable access to rights and the building of a fair and just society.

[Centre for Environmental Rights @CentreEnvRights]

#NewCourtCaseAlert| youth-led climate case launched by @AfrClimAlliance, Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action and @groundWorkSA, represented by CER, against government’s plans for new coal-fired power.
#CancelCoal
Read more here: https://t.co/UWvFp56Y3c
@LifeAfterCoal

[CALS @CALS_ZA]

Please consider contributing to this fundraiser. Nester Ndebele is an incredible activist who speaks up for the rights of women in mining-affected communities in South Africa. Now she has been the target of a burn attack and needs our support
@SAHRDNetwork

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

‘The river people’: City of Tshwane to evict more than 180 Mushroomville community waste pickers https://t.co/GtDWk3p4pf

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

Social grants: the research behind the controversy https://t.co/jN4Wp7aESz

[Black Sash @black_sash]

Save the Children sounds the alarm over food crisis facing immigrant children https://t.co/OzbXCoyIt2 via @GroundUp_News

Undocumented immigrants do not qualify and are suffering the full effects of the Covid pandemic, said the coalition in a letter sent to the DSD ...

[Lawyers for Human Rights @LHR_SA]

📢 @debz_rad making it known: if you are having your electricity or water constantly cut off, or your privacy invaded, it could be constructive #eviction! And as we always say: No court order? Then no eviction! https://t.co/LDjFKB91PY

[Lawyers for Human Rights @LHR_SA]

📢 It's DAY 1 of #PILG2021! Check out the programme here: https://t.co/cngTloMbLR

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

GROUNDUP : Red tape forces refugee children to wait for years to access SA schools https://t.co/KFTCiVmvUH

[Centre for Environmental Rights @CentreEnvRights]

“[Young] generations are currently being abandoned, basically, by today’s adults, the leaders, the people they trust, to face a range of increasingly severe impacts caused by climate change,” said King during the virtual launch. https://t.co/eyZcnFzAiE

[National Department of Health @HealthZA]

South Africans and people who live in It will have an opportunity on Friday and Saturday, 1 and 2 October 2021, to protect themselves against COVID-19 in a nationwide mass vaccination drive hosted by government and civil society.

https://t.co/FeNpjaST7x

[Legal Resources Centre @LRCSouthAfrica]

Please join us on 13-14 October to reflect on how social justice has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. You can register here https://t.co/k4ZD9QczqF. Participation is free and budget permitting, data will be supplied for those who require it to participate.

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

Bathabile Dlamini to be prosecuted for perjury https://t.co/cMckaAI7bY

[Equal Education @equal_education]

A few reasons why this interview with @edu_limp MEC @PollyBoshielo is very worrying:

1. The MEC seems to be unaware that the report that her department submitted to court in 2018 says it could only get rid of plain pit toilets by 2030. #FixOurSchools
@SECTION27news

[SASSA @OfficialSASSA]

The https://t.co/c85g74PV1I is zero-rated which means you are not charged data for using it when applying for the Covid-19 SRD grant #SASSACARES #Covid19SRDGrant @The_DSD @nds @PostofficeSa @GCISMedia @GovernmentZA

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

R350-a-month Covid grant is too low, say speakers at Women on Farms meeting https://t.co/Thqa2EcEl0

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting https://t.co/YnVghJJT6W

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

MAVERICK CITIZEN : Corruption Watch report exposes how rural mining communities are being cheated out of compensation https://t.co/AZIaak0db0

[SJI @SocialJusticeSA]

MAVERICK CITIZEN : SECTION27 set to hammer home importance of modernising copyright law in South Africa https://t.co/rRPbVLF0NW

[Centre for Environmental Rights @CentreEnvRights]

"Rehabilitation funds and rehab must be approached with a community-centered initiative, instead of trusting the polluter who robbed us in the first place." - Comrade Zethu, Khuthala Environmental Group

#OpenAgenda
@LifeAfterCoal @Earthlife_JHB @groundWorkSA

[Black Sash @black_sash]

Sassa opens new channels for social relief grant applications | via @eNCA https://t.co/CgK4BaqkvZ

Heavy traffic on the Sassa website has slowed down the R350 grant application process.
On day two the agency has had to open two new online channels to ease the pressure.