Who Are We
Life After Coal (Impilo Ngaphandle Kwamalahle) is a joint campaign by Earthlife Africa, groundWork, and the Centre for Environmental Rights. We aim to: discourage the development of fossil fuel developments; reduce emissions from existing coal infrastructure and encourage a coal phase-out; and enable a just transition from fossil fuels.
Partner Organisations
Earthlife Africa is a non-profit organisation, founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1988, that seeks a better life for all people without exploiting other people or degrading their environment. We want to encourage and support individuals, businesses and industries to reduce pollution, minimise waste and protect our natural resources.
Established in 1999, groundWork Friends of the Earth South Africa is a principles driven non-profit environmental justice organisation working towards a just transition and open democracy in South Africa and beyond. Its vision is thatpeople live well with each other and with the earth. To realise this vision, groundWork partners with affected communities to resist dirty energy and toxic production, building solidarity and local alliances that advocate for open debate and democratic control over resources such as energy, waste and health towards a viable future.
The Centre for Environmental Rights is a non-profit organisation and law clinic based in Cape Town, South Africa. We are activist lawyers who help communities and civil society organisations in South Africa realise our Constitutional right to a healthy environment by advocating and litigating for environmental justice.
Organisations that have signed on to the Defend Our Defenders open letter of demands to the Presidency of South Africa:
- Abahlali BaseMjondolo
- ActionAid
- Greenpeace
- Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)
- All Rise
- Centre for Environmental Rights (CER)
- Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg
- Human Rights Watch
- Global Environmental Trust
- GroundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa
- Khuthala Environmental Care Group
- Life After Coal
- Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa (MEJCN SA)
- MS Project
- Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organization (MCEJO)
- Natural Justice
- Phola Environmental Justice Alliance (PEJA)
- Highveld Environmental Justice Network (HEJN)
- Rights to Protest (R2P)
- South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA)
- South African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN)
- Sukumani Environmental Justice (SEJ)
- Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA)
- Vukani Environmental Movement (VEM)
- WoMin
- Womxndla
- Dzomo Lamupo
- Mulambwe Community Women’s Network
- Mulambwane Community Women’s Network
- Matjoba Young Women’s Organisation
- Women of Change
- Bopanang Women’s Organisation
- Ithuteng Community Organisation
- Mahlodi Community Organisation
- Westside Park Community Crisis Community
- Amadiba Crisis Committee
- Zion Healthcare Association of South Africa
- Clean Environment
- InTouch Youth Development and Community Justice
- Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee
- Amnesty International
- Lawyers for Human Rights
- Centre for Legal Studies
- Ubuntu Cultural Heritage Foundation NPC
- New Church
- Buitumelo Concerned Citizens
- KwaThema Working Group
- All Nations Community Centre
- Promise Drop-In Centre
- Zama Zama
- We Strive to Live
- Eugene Meck Foundation
- Siphumelele Older People Organisation
- Khulamandla
- Zalisidinga
- Clean Touch Administrative Services
- Lesedi Lethabo Community Centre
- Eteleng Pele Community Services
- Earth Child Creatives Hub and Projects
- Sizanani Home Based Caregiver Project
- Abomama Bomme in Business eKasi
- Palm Springs Green
- Africanmake
- Eyethu Sonke Organisation
- Soweto Cultural Senior Citizens
- Serapeng Sabasadi
- Parents, Family and Friends of South African Queens
- 350.org
- Zamdela Air Quality Monitoring Committee
- Lechabile Letsatsi
- Vukuzenzele foundation
- Botle bahlao
- SAMANCO Ex-workers
- Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD)
- Middelburg Social and Environmental Justice Alliance (MSEJA)
- Justice and Peace
- Mabola Alternative Committee
- Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
- Oxfam
- Legal Resource Centre (LRC)
- South African Climate Action Network (SACAN)