READ | Are SA MPs indirectly profiting from the climate crisis? Their pension fund won’t disclose fossil fuel investments — despite a legal request. Our op-ed with @OpenSecretsZA explains why this matters for climate justice & democracy. Read it here 👉🏾 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

WATCH | Last week at African Climate Alliance's Energy Justice Day, we asked some attendees what they’re most excited about when imagining a fossil fuel-free South Africa 🌞 www.instagram.com/reel/DOne7Db...

WATCH | Last week at African Climate Alliance's Energy Justice Day, we asked some attendees what they’re most excited about when imagining a fossil fuel-free South Africa 🌞 www.instagram.com/reel/DOne7Db...

Energy Justice Day with African Climate Alliance was powerful 💥 From divestment to direct action, we explored real ways to challenge fossil fuels & the climate crisis. Big thanks to ACA, Project 90x2030, and the Alternative Information Development Centre for this space 🌍

READ: Our latest newsletter is live! 🗞️ Read it here: fossilfreeuct.substack.com/p/how-deep-i...

Did you catch our stall at the Open Book Festival over the weekend? 📚 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our stall to learn more and sign our pledges in support of a fossil fuel-free future! Visit www.fossilfreesa.org.za/getinvolved if you want to join our community 🌞

Lazola Kati, Campaign Manager of the @fossiladbansa.bsky.social campaign, spoke at #AfricaClimateWeek in Addis Ababa on building public support to challenge fossil fuel greenwashing. Learn more about our campaign through the links in our bio. #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

Convened by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance – National Oil & Gas Conference 2025 Noxolo Mfocwa, Advocacy Campaigner at Fossil Free South Africa’s Fossil Ad Ban campaign, joins the call to Protect Our Land and Oceans, Securing Our Future. #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

🎙️Listen In! Noxolo Mfocwa, Advocacy Campaigner of the @fossiladbansa.bsky.social, talks to Stephen Grootes on The Money Show. Radio 702 & CapeTalk | 19:00 📻Listen here: Radio 702: tinyurl.com/Radio-702 Cape Talk: tinyurl.com/Cape-Talk #fossiladban #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

📻 Listen In Noxolo Mfocwa, Fossil Ad Ban Advocacy Campaigner, joins Radio Islam to discuss Alkemi Collective, Africa’s first creative agency to back nationwide ban on coal, oil & gas ads. Listen here: tinyurl.com/listen-to-ra... #fossiladban #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

Here is the full interview with Noxolo Mfocwa, Advocacy Campaigner, as she discusses Alkemi Collective’s groundbreaking endorsement of the nationwide ban on coal, oil, and gas ads. Listen here: tinyurl.com/2wfre7nz #fossiladban #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

📢 Press release: “Fossil fuels are the new tobacco” − Alkemi Collective says it’s time for a ban “Our agency took a stand to endorse the Fossil Ad Ban campaign,” said Alkemi Collective’s CEO, Bradly Howland. Read more here: tinyurl.com/yc2zv4xn #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

“It’s high time for a ban, and I urge other creative agencies to sign the Fossil Ad Ban pledge,” said Alkemi Collective’s CEO, Bradly Howland. ✍️ Sign the pledge: tinyurl.com/2ax3jkft #fossiladban #fossiladbansa @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

Have you seen our Media & Publications Manager, Jo, being interviewed by Ekse Live on our new Climate Hope campaign that we're launching soon? 🎥 WATCH: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0qaOP...

Come visit our stall next week at the 2025 Open Book Festival in Cape Town! 📚 We'll be there to chat to you about our campaigns, how you can get involved, and any fossil fuel-free related questions you may have. See you there 🌞

Join us on Wednesday, 10 September for Energy Justice day at The Commons, Muizenberg as part of African Climate Alliance's Cape Town Climate Week 📣 Register here: cloud.seatable.io/dtable/forms...

We're hearing live testimonies from communities across Africa about the impacts that Total Energies has had on their environments, health, and livelihoods. Thank you @350.org for organising such a powerful event.

Are you an academic/affiliated with a South African university? Find out more about why you should sign our Climate Leadership Platform, to demand your university to take climate action ‼️

Calling all university students 📣 The Gen Z's on our team have created memes to better explain why you, your friends AND your lecturers should sign our Climate Leadership platform! Use this link to sign your support: www.fossilfreesa.org.za/blog/unis-di...

✊ Communities across Africa are uniting to say NO! #KickTotalOutofAfrica @stopeacop.bsky.social @fossilfreesa.bsky.social #fossiladbansa #fossiladban #KickPollutersOut #StopEACOP

Are you an academic/affiliated with a South African university? Find out more about why you should sign our Climate Leadership Platform, to demand your university to take climate action ‼️

Calling all university students 📣 The Gen Z's on our team have created memes to better explain why you, your friends AND your lecturers should sign our Climate Leadership platform! Use this link to sign your support: www.fossilfreesa.org.za/blog/unis-di...

The climate crisis is still solvable, if we all work together and polluters are held accountable. #endfossilfuels #environmentaljustice

Sponsoring African football @CAF_Online doesn't guarantee @TotalEnergies to fund our arrests,brutality&defying national constitution. Global North #StopFossilFuelsSubsidies to save youths,biodiversity,nature&biodiversity. Hopes for a just renewable energy transition is fading @ucjglobal.bsky.social

In celebrating women today, let's remember those in frontline communities impacted by mining and extractive industries. Their struggles, solutions, and voices in the fight for climate justice deserve recognition. Happy Women’s Day! #FossilAdBan #FossilAdBanSA

READ | "Any sustainable debt solution must acknowledge that Africa in particular, and the global south generally, should not pay to fix a climate crisis they didn’t create." @theconversation.com Link: tinyurl.com/yc7xh6m4

Mining companies often promise jobs when they enter a community. But people with limited skills are usually excluded and left without any economic opportunities. Sign the pledge to help expose the lies: tinyurl.com/2h55bvsk #FossilAdBan #FossilAdBanSA

𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝘀 - show climate leadership by joining the Fossil Free Declaration. ✍️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 - tag your favourite athletes & teams to encourage them to join. 📢 Polluting sponsors are everywhere in sport - let's change that. 👇

Think you can’t be influenced by advertising? Think again. Fossil fuel companies use manipulative marketing to appear environmentally responsible, but they are driving the climate crisis. Sign the pledge to stop the lies: forms.gle/sAYMSnvogW3H... #FossilAdBanSA #FossilAdBan

This month’s newsletter is live 🎉 We discuss how two of our campaigners became mentors for Al Gore’s African Climate Reality Project, what to say to fossil fuel loyalists, and more! Read the full stories here: lnkd.in/dXqjM832 📚

We launched the latest Planet A Investment Guide last year 📖 Turns out ESG funds often outperform traditional ones, but many financial advisors still don’t know this. Want your investments to fund a sustainable future? Visit www.fossilfreesa.org.za/resources to learn more 🌿

Take a look at some more pictures from our AGM and 10th birthday event earlier in July 📸 If you'd like to stay up to date with our upcoming events, keep an eye on our page or visit our website: www.fossilfreesa.org.za 🌿

Another sneak peek into some of the activities we've been up to recently 🌟 If you're interested in learning more and getting involved, head over to our website: www.fossilfreesa.org.za

Thank you to everyone who celebrated our 10th birthday & Annual General Meeting with us on 12 July! 🌍 We're grateful for the connections, reflections & renewed energy for the road ahead. Here’s to a just, fossil-free future! 📸 More photos to follow. 🎥: Tam Wilson, Itchy Digital

Air pollution from coal power plants put Mpumalanga communities at risk. Our Fossil Ad Ban campaign, Carolina Eco Green and Womxndla Community Development held a greenwashing workshop to expose fossil fuel harms and false promises of prosperity. #FossilAdBan #FossilAdBanSA #StopGreenwashing

David Le Page writes that "The data is unambiguous: fossil fuels are a dead end. A genuinely green economy is the only meaningful growth story left. South Africa’s financial planners can either guide clients through this transition or explain why they didn’t." Read more: tinyurl.com/bluechipjour...

How does greenwashing impact communities near coal mines & fossil fuel plants? At our Smoke and Mirrors launch, we shared insights from our Mpumalanga workshop last year on how companies market to those most affected. 📖 Read the report: tinyurl.com/FABreport1 🎥 Full video: youtu.be/a_2-MfyzR5Y

Our director, David, spoke at an Efficient Group event, highlighting the fossil-free BCI Select ESG Equity Fund in July🌱 This fund is one of the few SA collective investments that fully excludes fossil fuels. We’re not affiliated, just advocating for more funds that support a sustainable future 🌍

SA winters are getting harsher, and the climate crisis is making it worse. Communities face food, energy & housing challenges. Here are some practical, impactful ways to help this winter ☔ Read our latest Substack newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/fossilfr...

Reminiscing about our Clean Creatives SA Climate Mixer event we held in March this year. We brought together industry experts, creatives and advocates to discuss the transition away from fossil fuel clients in the ad and PR industry. Check out the full panel video here: youtu.be/_zHz3_26Wf4

🚨 Are South African MPs indirectly profiting from climate chaos and war? We teamed up with Open Secrets to ask this question – but the Political Office Bearers Pension Fund won’t answer, despite claiming 'transparency' as a core value. Read more & tell us: is this a conflict of interest?

A #JustTransition can’t run on colonial economics. 💰 Pay Up 🚫 Cancel the Debt ⚙️ Change the System Seville’s #FfD4 must go big or go home. #JustTransitionRising #SystemChange #FfD4People

🎉 Our 2024-2025 Annual Report is officially live! It reflects on the work we've done over the past year, where we've grown, and how our work is evolving to reflect a more holistic approach to build support for a truly Just Transition. You can read the report via our website here: lnkd.in/d9dyJvG9

From @africanclimatereality leadership training to being hosted on @mobilizesa's climate comms podcast — here’s a round-up of why our team’s been up to lately 🌍 If you’re interested in learning more about our work, head over to our website www.fossilfreesa.org.za 💻

📣 Lazola Kati urges the G20 to ban fossil fuel ads. Our Fossil Ad Ban campaign found 200 greenwashing ads in 3 months from BP, Shell, Sasol & others. Let’s fight climate lies, not fall for them. 📖 Op-ed: lnkd.in/dzm6Xeq4 📚 Our greenwashing report: lnkd.in/dBuFBjY8 ✍🏾 Our FAB pledge: lnkd.in/d9UhgGFQ

Invested in Allan Gray? 💰 A R10,000 investment made 27 years ago carries major climate risk – a risk many asset managers still ignore 🌍 📚 Read the op-ed: bit.ly/allangrayoped ✍🏾 Want sustainable options? Sign our letter: tinyurl.com/IFFLetter

South Africa’s LNG trade with the U.S. is making waves — but what’s the real story behind the headlines? 📩 Don’t miss the full scoop and other hot takes in the latest Mobilize Newsletter. Head over to mobilize.org.za to read more! 🔗🔥 @fossilfreesa.bsky.social

Save the date! 📆 Lazola Kati, our Fossil Ad Ban campaign coordinator, will join a panel discussion hosted by the Institute for Security Studies on 17 June 2025 🌍 Register to attend the online panel here: lnkd.in/dpPn4XHB

This weekend, thousands are marching to Rafah to demand an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza 🇵🇸✊🏽 Fossil Free SA stands in solidarity with them. Watch our statement here: www.instagram.com/reel/DK1mM1W... @cjcoalition.bsky.social links Palestine’s freedom to climate justice here: bit.ly/GlobalMarchG...

Guess what, we’re turning 10! 🎉 Join us as we celebrate a decade of climate action and community on Saturday 12 July. This gathering is more than a milestone. It’s a moment to reflect on our collective achievements and strengthen the community that motivate our work 🌳 RSVP via the link in our bio.