WATCH: Residents support call to highlight injustices amid BRICS conference
A large group of residents as well as many organisations joined the march in support of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance.
SCORES of residents supported the call to raise awareness about the Ukraine war and the Jindal mine, and to highlight the need to develop Melmoth and Eshowe.
Hosted by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), the ‘Break the BRICS Day of Action’ protest march, ahead of the BRICS summit, was held on August 23.
SDCEA’s oil, gas and livelihoods project officer, Janeira Reddy, said the organisation was pleased to have had the support of many other organisations and residents from south Durban and afar.
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BRICS is an acronym for the powerful grouping of the world’s leading emerging market economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS summit was held from August 22 to 24, in Johannesburg.
The BRICS mechanism aims to promote peace, security, development and cooperation. It also aims to contribute significantly to the development of humanity and establish a more equitable and fair world.
Reddy said, “Inequality, lack of adequate infrastructure, increased levels of violence, state repression and the exploitation of resources to the detriment of people’s livelihoods and their ability to live in a healthy relationship with their environments, are all symptoms of development not oriented towards people but rather government and corporate profit.
“Africa’s survival is largely at the mercy of climate change. Climate change is driven by increased greenhouse gas emissions, which are fuelled by South Africa and other BRICS countries that continue to rely on and supply their northern counterparts with dirty, non-renewable sources of energy, or the products created from dirty energy.”
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