@SocialJusticeSA

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

 Johannesburg
sji.org.za/
Joined October 2013
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#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: bit.ly/3ci00XK @LifeAfterCoal
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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
Mining Affected Communities United in Action
@macua_sa15 Nov 2021
Gladys Nester Ndebele's Road To Recovery | Community Fundraising Page with GoGetFunding gogetfunding.com/new-beginni… via @GoGetFunding

Gladys Nester Ndebele’s Road To Recovery

South Africa bear witness to an estimated 1,000 burns attacks a year, largely against women rejecting unwanted treatment or defending themselves against male attackers. Now these victims, often from...

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‘The river people’: City of Tshwane to evict more than 180 Mushroomville community waste pickers dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

‘The river people’: City of Tshwane to evict more than 180 Mushroomville community waste pickers

A community of more than 180 waste pickers in Centurion are facing imminent eviction despite the fact that many have lived in the area for more than 10 years. They fear that not only will they lose...

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Social grants: the research behind the controversy groundup.org.za/article/soci…

Social grants: the research behind the controversy

We look at how different grants were evaluated in the recent SALDRU study

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Save the Children sounds the alarm over food crisis facing immigrant children groundup.org.za/article/save… 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 ...
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📢 @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! youtu.be/qlld7k1Yhos
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📢 It's DAY 1 of #PILG2021! Check out the programme here: publicinterestlawgathering.c…
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GROUNDUP : Red tape forces refugee children to wait for years to access SA schools dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Red tape forces refugee children to wait for years to access SA schools

The Three2Six Project has hundreds of children on its waiting list.

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“[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. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Dark days ahead: A bleak future awaits future generations if world leaders and industries continue...

You’ve heard it all before. Climate crisis. Global warming. 1.5°C threshold. Tipping point. Day Zero. But what does any of it mean in practical terms? What is going to happen to us 10, 20 or 30 years...

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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. sacoronavirus.co.za/2021/09/…
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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 bit.ly/39R8Ydk. Participation is free and budget permitting, data will be supplied for those who require it to participate.
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Bathabile Dlamini to be prosecuted for perjury groundup.org.za/article/bath…
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
Sunday Times
@SundayTimesZA15 Aug 2021
Q&A with Limpopo education MEC Polly Boshielo | The Limpopo education department found itself in court last week because of its failure to eradicate pit toilets at its schools. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…
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The srd.sassa.gov.za 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
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R350-a-month Covid grant is too low, say speakers at Women on Farms meeting groundup.org.za/article/r350…
GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting groundup.org.za/article/grou…

GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting

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MAVERICK CITIZEN : Corruption Watch report exposes how rural mining communities are being cheated out of compensation dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Corruption Watch report exposes how rural mining communities are being cheated out of compensation

Report is a follow-on to one that was released in 2018, Mining Royalties, which showed how corruption was stopping communities from getting equity benefits and compensation for the use of their land...

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MAVERICK CITIZEN : SECTION27 set to hammer home importance of modernising copyright law in South Africa dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

SECTION27 set to hammer home importance of modernising copyright law in South Africa

As part of the public consultation process about the delayed Copyright Amendment Bill, SECTION27 representatives will appear before the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry this week to reinfo...

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"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
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Sassa opens new channels for social relief grant applications | via @eNCA enca.com/news/sassa-opens-ne… 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.
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