SA Food Sovereignty Campaign

15/05/2026

CJCM Press Release: The Chairperson of the Presidential Climate Commission, President Ramaphosa, does not care about climate injustice and climate harms suffered in the recent devastation in the country.

15/04/2026

Hi all. A reminder that our students are stepping up and calling for a post-normal university. This is in recognition that climate emergency is not a future problem, but one that is happening now. Therefore, education must evolve to meet the crisis head-on!

A post-normal approach embraces complexity, values, decolonial forms of knowledge, and collaboration across disciplines, communities, and movements. Most importantly, a post-normal university connects research directly to action, because education without action is climate denial!

SIGN & SHARE petition if you believe higher education must rise to the climate emergency

Link: https://www.change.org/p/the-climate-emergency-requires-a-post-normal-university?recruited_by_id=9f19b870-107f-11f1-85eb-5fb18398dd2f&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=psf_promote_or_share&utm_medium=copylink&share_id=ynYXmCNLFs

30/03/2026

Between the 22nd-28th of March, SAFSC travelled to Northdale in Pietermaritzburg, KZN to host an Agroecology training called ‘Accelerating the Deep Just Transition: Ecofeminist and Agroecology Workshop,’

This 7 day workshop included backyard gardeners, small scale farmers, activists and community members who collectively challenged extractive industrial agricultural models of growing food through reimagining what our food systems would look like if they were centered on care. We learned about soil health, restoring our water table, regeneration of our communities and seed sovereignty.

We hope that the beautiful energy and passion of the people of PMB will continue to strengthen the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and help us realise our vision of a deep just transition of South Africa’s food system!

09/03/2026

*Join us for a University of Johannesburg webinar, in person at the Dept of Sociology, 6th floor, C Ring, UJ Auckland Park campus or online https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4607104147*

*Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below*

Wednesday, March 11, 3-5pm

with Vishwas Satgar, Michelle Williams and Patrick Bond

At a time of multiple unjust wars, rising fascist political power, extreme financial and energy-industry volatility, and worsening ecocide, what are the most hopeful visions and actions arising from leading progressive forces doing – and will they inform South African resistances?

In their new book, Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below (Wits University Press), Wits University social scientists Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams address the traditional leftwing problem: finding practical solutions to capitalism’s planetary crises. A new transformative politics is needed, arising from worker cooperative systems that have begun operating in 15 countries, with the broadest approach to ‘commoning.’ - https://witspress.co.za/page/detail/Worker-Cooperatives-and-Deep-Democracy/?k=9781776149841

The most inspiring areas, as Satgar and Williams show, are in social reproduction, expansion of public power, protection of nature, and territorial expansion in opposition to global hegemonic power. For this, solidarities are required to engender emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. Against all odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care in order to live differently. The challenge is to learn from them, to take the next steps in world-making, and to mainstream this praxis of socio-ecological reproduction from below.

Using a more traditional critical framing – of ‘non-reformist reforms’ as distinguished from ‘reformist reforms’ (that maintain core features of the system) – UJ Sociologist and director of the Centre for Social Change Patrick Bond plots ‘Routes Towards Social Recovery in an Era of War, Ecocide and Ideological Chaos,’ in a new essay for The Sage Handbook of Eco-Social Policy and Politics. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/afr/the-sage-handbook-of-eco-social-policy-and-politics/book288440

All welcome

06/03/2026

Dear All,

For those in Gauteng, herewith, the invitation to the OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE ‘FACING THE HEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA’ PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH.

Through ten years of photographic documentation, this exhibition and book brings into focus unfolding climate shocks, injustice and resistance post a 1C overshoot at the global level. The photographic medium echoes the warnings of climate science but also amplifies the case for climate justice solutions to secure a livable, just and democratic future for all.

The launch will feature a panel discussion with Professor Vishwas Satgar, alongside leading climate scientists and activists, followed by an opportunity to engage in further dialogue and tour the exhibition.

DATE: Saturday, 14th March, 2026

VENUE: Origins Centre, Tapestry Room (parking available in origins centre parking lot)

TIME: 1.30 PM TILL 5 PM

RSVP IS NECESSARY. contact Tammy Reynard before Thursday, 12th March to confirm attendance: [email protected]

We hope to see you the

23/02/2026

23/02/2026

Chronic pesticide exposure is a ‘silent pandemic’ of neurodevelopmental harm in South Africa. The current regulatory system, designed for adults, fails to protect children from cumulative, low-level e…

17/02/2026

✊🏿Calling all our Durban Cdes✊🏿

Join us for the launch of “Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below” by Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams at Ike’s Books in Florida on the 2nd of March.

17/02/2026

17/02/2026

The January 2026 issue of the Biowatch Bulletin is out now.
https://biowatch.org.za/download/biowatch-bulletin-january-2026/

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Highlights in the January 2026 issue include:
- Farmer-led seed systems are key to food sovereignty
- Agroecology for food sovereignty video series
- Agroecology Action Collective SA-Zimbabwe learning exchange
- High rates of food insecurity a focus at CFS
- New research paper: Smallholder farmers, school food gardens and South Africa’s National School Nutrition Programme – a focus on KwaZulu-Natal https://biowatch.org.za/download/national-school-nutrition-programme/