Client: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southern Africa

Illustration Project

Global heating is a clear and present threat to South Africa. The heating is being driven by anthropogenic activity (i.e. environmental plunder, extraction and burning of fossil fuels, clearing of forests for large-scale commercial farming, metabolic rift, etc.) and some of the consequences include pollution, multi-year droughts and over 600,000 people have abandoned smallholder farming, which has exacerbated vulnerability in many communities. The Covid-19 helped to shine the spotlight on vulnerability in more than 40,000 suburbs around the country where the Department of Water Affairs distributed water tanks. How does South Africa address this vulnerability to water shock? Which measures does the country need to put in place in order to advance the constitutional mandate of clean water for all? The RLS is funding a book to promote deep research and policy suggestions on these important questions. Global heating is a clear and present threat to South Africa. The heating is being driven by anthropogenic activity (i.e. environmental plunder, extraction and burning of fossil fuels, clearing of forests for 

large-scale commercial farming, metabolic rift, etc.) and some of the consequences include pollution, multi-year droughts and over 600,000 people have abandoned smallholder farming, which has exacerbated vulnerability in many communities. The Covid-19 helped to shine the spotlight on vulnerability in more than 40,000 suburbs around the country where the Department of Water Affairs distributed water tanks. How does South Africa address this vulnerability to water shock? Which measures does the country need to put in place in order to advance the constitutional mandate of clean water for all? The RLS is funding a book to promote deep research and policy suggestions on these important questions. 

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