Greenpeace Africa Activists Disrupt Mantashe's Address at Africa Energy Indaba: SouthAfrica Greenpeace SustainableEnergy Coal Renewables
Greenpeace International Cape Town — Today, Greenpeace Africa activists disrupted Minister Gwede Mantashe's opening address at the Africa Energy Indaba at the Cape Town International Convention Center with banners and messages on bluetooth speakers.
During the Minister's address, six activists held up banners with the message ‘GWEDE STOP BLOCKING RENEWABLES’ while Bluetooth speakers replayed messages from the South African public expressing their outrage at the government's inaction on the electricity crisis, until the activists were removed from the venue.
"Coal is a dangerous dead-end pushing South Africa to the brink of destruction, yet almost all of South Africa's electricity comes from an ancient fleet of coal-fired power stations which are literally falling apart, breaking down more quickly than they can be fixed," said Greenpeace Africa's Climate and Energy Campaigner, Thandile Chinyavanhu.
"Fast tracking a shift to renewable energy is clearly the solution, but the biggest blocker in the way of getting us out of the oppressive darkness of the electricity crisis is standing at the podium today. Minister Mantashe is too biased to see the real solutions, and his fossil fuel obsession is literally bringing South Africa to its knees and cannot remain unchallenged. Enough is enough.
The Minister is ultimately to blame for loadshedding, because he is actively blocking new renewable energy projects and not a single MW of electricity has been connected to the grid during his tenure. Minister Mantashe has either dodged accountability entirely, made vicious public comments about environmental activists, or declared that the fossil fuel industry is under attack, despite the industry announcing record billions in profits in 2022.
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