South Africa: hundreds of protesters call for climate emergency at Parliament
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Maverick
Hundreds of protesters marched to the South African Parliament in Cape Town to call for an emergency response to climate change and food sovereignty. The organisations mobilised are calling in particular for a ban on harmful pesticides and the adoption of policies promoting agroecology, according to Qhawekazi Mahlalela, coordinator of the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign.
Hundreds of protesters marched to Parliament in Cape Town on Friday 16 October to call for measures against climate change and food sovereignty, reports the Daily Maverick. The mobilisation took place on World Food Day.
The Climate Justice Charter Movement (CJCM) and the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC) were among the organisations behind the march, alongside Women on Farms Project, EcoMaties and the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre. The protesters set off from Hanover Street in District Six before attending speeches outside Parliament, according to the Daily Maverick.
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