14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

Greenpeace Africa: Fourteen activists including groundWork's Bobby Peek, Earthlife`s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa's Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put South Africa's energy utility, Eskom, under "new management." Activists confronted the utility to publicly highlight that Eskom has failed to deliver clean, affordable, accessible electricity to the people of this country, and demand a shift away from coal....

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