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• Growing urgency to take on power to change our world - The Mercury and Pretoria News, 24 December 2020.
• State opposes court action forcing it to improve air quality of Highveld communities - IOL (online), 15 December 2020.
• Engen is 'still killing us', says Durban community body after explosion at refinery - Daily Maverick: Our Burning Planet (online), 07 December 2020.
• Smoke has cleared but damage is done after Engen oil refinery explosion - The Citizen (online), 04 December 2020.
• Human Rights Commission takes municipality to court over landfill site - Times Live (online), 02 December 2020.
• Media Statement: SAHRC institutes urgent application against the Msunduzi Municipality for the management, deterioration and current state of the New England Road Landfill Site in Pietermaritzburg SAHRC website, 01 December 2020.
• CER lauds court halting Thabametsi power station plans - Craemer Media Mining Weekly (online), 12 November 2020.
• Fikile Ntshangase - Another Environmental Activist Violently Silenced - Cape Times, The Mercury, Pretoria News, 09 November 2020.
• Another KZN coal mine murder: NGO urges investigation into Fikile Ntshangase murder - BizNews (online), 28 October 2020.
• Gas: South Africa's next 'battleground' - Mail & Guardian (online), 21 October 2020; also The Soweto Gazette (online).
• Ethekwini's bold new plan to generate its own power and get off Eskom grid - IOL - The Mercury (online), 19 October 2020.
• Turkish floating gas power ships sail into public consultation process after back-door passage to SA freezes up - Daily Maverick (online), 18 October 2020.
• Gas extraction poses serious risk to environment and society - The Mercury and the Pretoria News.
• Xolobeni: Recovering Democracy - Victory for people's right to information - The Mercury and Pretoria News, 02 October 2020.
• Mining licence for Namibia’s sensitive Kavango region goes underground - Daily Maverick (online), 28 September 2020.
• Exporting Poison to the South - Cape Times, Mercury, & Pretoria News, 23 September 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of this item here.
• Prize Winners Today: Environmental Justice with Bobby Peek - goldmanprize.org (online) - 15 September 2020.
• Total's Oil and Gas: A Match Made in Hell - Pretoria News, 01 September 2020. You can view a standalone webpage of this item here.
• False Zero — or are the corporations really trying to save the planet? - Daily Maverick (online), 26 August 2020.
• Report: Cancer-causing chemicals lingered in the air days after Msunduzi landfill fire -
  IOL (online - Mercury), 18 August 2020.
• Climate change must be considered in water licence applications for coal-fired power plants in SA, says Water Tribunal - IOL
  (online - The Saturday Star), 13 August 2020.
• Landfill Has Become a Permanent Problem for City - The Mercury, 05 August 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of the item here.
• Mantashe in legal wrangle over electricity generation -IOL (online The Star), 31 July 2020.
• GroundWork approaches court over IRP - Craemer Mining Weekly (online), 31 July 2020.
• NGO challenges government in court over its energy blueprint - Business Day (online), 30 July, 2020.
• Msunduzi residents urged to evacuate as dump fire rages on - IOL (Mercury), 22 July 2020.
• Defending Communities and the Environment - The Mercury, 21 July 2020. You can view/download a standalone webpage of the item here.
• Toxic fumes can cause acute respiratory distress - Capital Newspapers (online), 20 July 2020.
• Protecting Our Health: There is Life After Coal - Mercury, Pretoria News, 07 July 2020. This item is also available to read as a webpage here.
• UN watchdog joins SA air pollution case - New Frame (online), 30 June 2020.
• Reusables are just as safe: The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating single-use plastic pollution - Daily Maverick (online), 24 June 2020.
• A Cheap Shot and Very Bad Attempt at Blame Shifting - Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 10 June 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
• A Fight to Breathe Clean Air - Africa Legal (online), 22 June 2020.
• 'Deadly Air' case cites particulates - Saturday Star, 20 June 2020.
• Eskom, Sasol, in pollition court challenge - Mercury, 17 June 2020.
• Highveld's air quality so bad that UN wants to join SA court case - Citizen (online), 17 June 2020. See also UN joins dirty air fight here.
• Wanted: Socially just transition to sustainable energy - Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 10 June 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
• Infodemic and Our Miseducation - Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 26 May 2020. This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
• Drakenstein municipality waste pickers to resume work at Level 3 - IOL (Cape Times), 13 May 2020
• Enjoy the fresh air while it lasts! Lockdown banishes air pollution - Daily Maverick (online), 08 May 2020
• Back to basics is the only sustainable solution - IOL (online), also Mercury and Pretoria News, 29 April 2020. This item is also available to read as a webpage here.
• 'My children are starving' - Waste pickers fear starvation and poverty during lockdown - Witness, 15 April 2020.
• The Nation needs more than Band-aids, Mr. President - Mercury & Pretoria News, 14 April 2020.
• Coronavirus Underlines Health Inequalities in Society - Pretoria News, 30 March 2020 (also Mercury and Cape Times).This opinion piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
• Mining's Toxic Legacy for the People of Dannhauser - Mercury, Cape Times, and Pretoria News, 16 March 2020.This groundWork Opinion Piece is also available to read as a webpage here.
• SA's just transition from fossil fuels is "all to fight for" - IOL (Saturday Star - online), 13 March 2020.
• Environmental groups appeal Richards Bay gas-to-power plant - Zululand Observer (online), 20 February 2020.
• Africa Under Threat from Plastic Dumping - Cape Times and Pretoria News, 03 February 2020. This groundWork Opinion Piece is also available to read as a webpage here.

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