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Letter to DMRE South Africa

Letter to DMRE

To the Parliamentary Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister Gwede Mantashe,

As the Climate Justice Coalition and the undersigned partner organisations, we are mobilising during the week of the 22nd of September in actions taking place across the country under the banner of #UprootTheDMRE. We do so because the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) under the leadership of Minister Gwede Mantashe, has been a major obstacle to progress on a just energy and mining future.  As part of those mobilisations, the coalition has worked together with groups in labour, mining affected communities, youth, energy and environmental justice to develop these demands.

We are facing interconnected social, economic and ecological crises, which require us to transform our archaic and harmful energy and mining sector to ensure a more socially, economically and ecologically just future. We need transformative action now, which we are demanding. We summarise our demands with the following bullet points:

1. The leadership and structure of the DMRE must be transformed to fulfil a mandate for an inclusive socially, economically, and ecologically just energy and mining future. Mantashe must step aside to allow new progressive leadership.

2. A rapid and just transition to a more socially owned, renewable energy powered economy, providing clean, safe, and affordable energy for all, with no worker and community left behind in the transition.

3. No to new polluting, corrupt and expensive coal, oil, and gas projects, officials within the department to be investigated around irregular deals. Reject the corrupt, costly and unnecessary powership program. We demand One Million Climate Jobs instead.

4. Communities must have the right to say no to mining projects, that includes free, prior informed consent, the upholding of social labour plans, and the right to sustainable alternative modes of development.

5. Minister Mantashe and the DMRE must stop blocking and inhibiting Eskom's transition to renewables. We need a Green New Eskom driving a just transition to a more socially owned, renewable energy future.

Signed,

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Letter to DMRE South Africa

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