Resource Hub
Content for Change
Resource Hub
Content for Change
Our Resource Hub is an ever-growing collection of content to help you be your own communicator and change-maker.
Here you can find a variety of infographics, videos, research reports, op-eds, & toolkits that look to unpack issues on Climate, Energy, Covid, and Communications for Change in general. Just select the right filter option, or use the search bar to find what you’re looking for.
Welcome to the Resource Hub
Empowering social justice organisations across South Africa, our Resource Hub is an ever-growing collection of content designed to help you become your own most effective communicator and change-maker.
Whether you are advocating for policy shifts, mobilising communities, or raising awareness, we provide the essential tools you need to amplify your voice and drive meaningful impact.
What You Will Find
Explore a diverse range of materials tailored for advocacy and on-the-ground action, including:
Infographics:
Clear, highly shareable visual data summaries.
Videos
Engaging multimedia content that supports your messaging.
Research Reports:
In-depth, evidence-based insights and analysis.
Op-eds:
Thought leadership and persuasive opinion pieces.
Toolkits:
Campaign specific ready-to-use assets with pre-approved talking points & key narratives.
Key Focus Areas
Our resources are continually updated to unpack critical, intersectional issues shaping the South African landscape, with dedicated focus on:
- Climate Justice
- Energy Transition
- Covid-19 Impacts & Recovery
- Communications for Change
Find What You Need
Navigating the hub is simple. Just select the right filter option to browse by specific themes and formats, or use the search bar to pinpoint exactly what you are looking for.
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Resources
#16 Mobilize Newsletter
- Access to Healthcare, Activism, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Global Debt & Trade Justice, Health Justice, Human Rights, Human Rights & Social Justice, Human Rights Defenders, Mining & Resource Justice, Peace, Conflict & International Solidarity, War
- Newsletter, Resources
#15 Mobilize Newsletter 13/03/2026
- Activism, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Data Centers and Environmental Risk, Economic Justice, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Human Rights & Social Justice, Technology, Media & Digital Justice, Wealth & Corporate Tax Justice
- Newsletter, Resources
#14 Mobilize Newsletter 20/02/2026
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Food Justice & Hunger, Government Accountability, Human Rights, Human Rights & Social Justice, Hunger & Malnutrition, Service Delivery, Water Justice & Water Security
- Newsletter, Resources
#13 Mobilize Newsletter 30/01/2026
- Activism, Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Global Debt & Trade Justice, Poverty & Inequality
- Newsletter, Resources
#12 Mobilize Newsletter 11/12/2025
- Civil Society, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Food Justice & Hunger, Government Accountability, Human Rights & Social Justice, Hunger & Malnutrition, Justice Campaigns, Poverty & Inequality
- Newsletter, Resources
#11 Mobilize Newsletter 28/11/2025
- Activism, Biodiversity & Conservation, Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Food Justice & Hunger, Food Security & Sovereignty
- Newsletter, Resources
#10 Mobilize Newsletter 3/11/2025
- Civic Participation, Civil Society, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Global South Solidarity, Human Rights & Social Justice, Peace, Conflict & International Solidarity, Public Dialogues and Community Meetings
- Newsletter, Resources
#9 Mobilize Newsletter 20/10/2025
- Biodiversity & Conservation, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Food Justice & Hunger, Food Security & Sovereignty, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights & Social Justice, Justice Campaigns, Land Reform, Land, Housing & Indigenous Justice, Media Justice, Misinformation, Technology, Media & Digital Justice
- Newsletter, Resources
#7 Mobilize Newsletter 22/09/2025
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Government Accountability, Human Rights & Social Justice, Justice Campaigns
- Newsletter, Resources
#6 Mobilize Newsletter 22/08/2025
- Civic Participation, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Human Rights & Social Justice, Justice Campaigns
- Newsletter, Resources
#4 Mobilize Newsletter 25/07/2025
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Human Rights & Social Justice, Justice Campaigns, Land, Housing & Indigenous Justice, Pollution & Environmental Health, Urban Development, Wealth & Corporate Tax Justice
- Newsletter, Resources
#3 Mobilize Newsletter 25/07/2025
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Global South Solidarity, Just Transition, Peace, Conflict & International Solidarity
- Newsletter, Resources
#2 Mobilize Newsletter 27/06/2025
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Food Justice & Hunger, Food Security & Sovereignty, Global Debt & Trade Justice, Government Accountability, Hunger & Malnutrition, Just Transition, Renewable Energy
- Newsletter, Resources
#1 Mobilize Newsletter 12/06/2025
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Food Justice & Hunger, Food Prices & Affordability, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Government Accountability, Hunger & Malnutrition, Just Transition, Renewable Energy
- Newsletter, Resources
Climate Comms Baseline Report
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Just Transition
- Report, Resources
Exploring Community Experiences of Government’s Plans to solve the Energy Crisis
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Government Accountability, Just Transition
- Report, Resources
Climate Comms Baseline Report: Navigating the Climate Crisis and Global Warming in South African Communities affected by Triple Threat Challenges.
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Just Transition
- Report, Resources
Energy Comms Pre and Post Survey Report on the Lived Realities of Coping with Loadshedding and Power Cuts in two South African Provinces
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Government Accountability, Just Transition, Service Delivery
- Report, Resources
Community Perspectives of the Transition from Coal to Green Energy- “No one consulted us. They just do as they please”.
- Civic Participation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Just Transition, Renewable Energy
- Report, Resources
Round 3: The Lived Realities of coping with loadshedding and power cuts in two South African Provinces- Community perceptions and voices on government plans to address loadshedding
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Government Accountability, Just Transition, Renewable Energy
- Report, Resources
Round 2: The Lived Realities of coping with loadshedding and power cuts in two South African Provinces
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Government Accountability, Just Transition, Renewable Energy, Service Delivery
- Report, Resources
Energy Comms Intervention Workshops’ Quantitative Survey Report
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Just Transition
- Report, Resources
Round 1: The Lived Reality of Daily Power Cuts in two South African Province
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Just Transition, Service Delivery
- Report, Resources
Videos
Dr. T on Human Rights
- Access to Healthcare, Equality, Health Justice, Healthcare Workers, Human Rights, Human Rights & Social Justice, Human Rights Defenders, Public Health
- short form, Speech, Videos
G20 Debt Relief Mural
- Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Global Debt & Trade Justice
- Protest Video, short form, Videos
Historic Debt and the Climate Crises aren’t just Africa’s Burden
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Global Debt & Trade Justice, Global South Solidarity, Peace, Conflict & International Solidarity
- Podcast, short form, Videos
Africa’s wealth is being drained long before it can benefit its people
- Disability Rights, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Gender-Based Violence, Global Debt & Trade Justice, Mining & Resource Justice, Municipality budgets and Finance, Wealth & Corporate Tax Justice
- Podcast, short form, Videos
Overconsumption isn’t just an environmental problem, it’s a social one too
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Education & Knowledge Justice, Pollution & Environmental Health, Public Education, Waste & Circular Economy
- Explainer Video, short form, Videos
Is LNG a good thing?
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Just Transition
- Podcast, Videos
The importance of Indigenous Knowledge in climate change
- Biodiversity & Conservation, Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Education & Knowledge Justice, Indigenous Rights, Land, Housing & Indigenous Justice, Public Education, Traditional Knowledge
- Explainer Video, Videos
Africa is getting hotter
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Just Transition
- Podcast, Videos
The Mobilize Podcast Ep.1: The HIDDEN COST of spatial apartheid
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Equality, Human Rights & Social Justice, Land, Housing & Indigenous Justice, Local Government, Pollution & Environmental Health, Service Delivery, Spatial Justice, Urban Development, Water Justice & Water Security
- Podcast, Videos
Mobilize: The Documentary
- Civic Participation, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Health Justice, Human Rights, Human Rights & Social Justice, Pandemic Response
- Documentary, Videos
South Africa’s future is at risk!
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels & Extractivism, Just Transition
- Campaign, Videos
The Mobilize Podcast Ep.8: The Case for Universal Basic Income in South Africa
- Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Living Wages & Employment, Poverty & Inequality, Social Protection & Grants
- Podcast, Videos
Graphics
Buzzword Breakdown: Historical Responsibility
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations, Economic Justice, Financial Justice & Reparations, Global South Solidarity, Peace, Conflict & International Solidarity, Poverty & Inequality, Wealth & Corporate Tax Justice
- Graphics, infographic
Buzzword Breakdown: Historical Responsibility
Buzzword Breakdown: Maladaptation
- Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Climate Finance & Reparations
- Graphics, infographic
Buzzword Breakdown: Maladaptation
Know your rights. Show up
- Civic Participation, Community Dialogues and Meetings, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Government Accountability, Local Government, Transparency
- Graphics, infographic
Know your rights. Show up
South Africa’s inequality has a history
- Graphics
South Africa’s inequality has a history
How to hold corporations accountable
- Activism, Civic Participation, Civil Society, Climate & Environmental Justice, Democracy, Governance & Civic Participation, Environmental Governance & Litigation, Government Accountability, Human Rights & Social Justice, Justice Campaigns, Transparency
- Graphics, infographic
How to hold corporations accountable
Buzzword Breakdown: Climate Finance
- Graphics
Buzzword Breakdown: Climate Finance
Baseline Report 2025
Recommended Reading
Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South
Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South
Andrew Boyd, Juman Abujbara, Dave Oswald Mitchell, Marcel Taminato
In this follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
South Africa's Survival Guide to Climate Change
South Africa’s Survival Guide to Climate Change
Sipho Kings and Sarah Wild
As temperatures climb, sea levels rise, and parts of the country face the risk of becoming uninhabitable, this guide rests on the idea that with knowledge, preparation, and collective action, South Africa can weather the storm of the climate crisis
Climate Change Education: Preparing African Youth for Future Challenges
Climate Change Education: Preparing African Youth for Future Challenges
Samantha Tshabalala, Dr Wilfred Lunga, and Caiphus Baloyi.
This paper considers climate change’s devastating impacts on nutrition, economies, and public health throughout Africa, alongside the opportunity young people have to drive sustainable practices through education.
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
Nikhil Deb, Manjusha Nair, Glenn W. Muschert, Edward Elgar
Presenting the Global South as a space of belonging and resistance to the hegemony of global capitalism, this timely handbook identifies how to re-imagine transformation futures for a just world.
Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South
Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South
Immanuel Ness
Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and South Africa, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet.
Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation
Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation
Edited by Raouf Farrah and Suraya Dadoo
Bringing together critical contributions from Palestinian and African scholars, intellectuals and activists who confront the intertwined histories of genocide, apartheid and colonialism that still cast long shadows over the present.
Glossary
Definitions
Climate Adaptation: Preparing for Today and Tomorrow
It means taking action to prepare for and adjust to the current and projected impacts of climate change. With climate change bringing more frequent and intense extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts and floods, individuals and communities can reduce their vulnerability and increase their resilience by adapting now.
Adaptation comes in many forms:
- Food Security
- Infrastructure & Nature-based Solutions
- Water & Urban Systems
- Locally Led Adaptation
- Climate Finance
What is Climate Justice?
A framework that recognises that low-income and BIPOC communities, who bear the least responsibility for the issue, are disproportionately affected by climate change worldwide.
Climate Justice shapes who pays for climate action, whose voices are heard, and whose lives are prioritised.
What is Loss and Damage?
Loss and damage finance recognises that some climate impacts, like disappearing islands, destroyed homes, or lost livelihoods, go beyond adaptation. It recognises that losses can be both economic and non-economic and pushes wealthy, high-emitting nations to fund recovery for vulnerable countries hit hardest.
What is climate change mitigation?
Climate change mitigation refers to any action taken by governments, businesses or people to reduce or prevent greenhouse gases, or to enhance carbon sinks that remove them from the atmosphere. These gases trap heat from the sun in our planet’s atmosphere, keeping it warm.
Since the industrial era began, human activities have led to the release of dangerous levels of greenhouse gases, causing global warming and climate change. However, despite unequivocal research about the impact of our activities on the planet’s climate and growing awareness of the severe danger climate change poses to our societies, greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. If we can slow down the rise in greenhouse gases, we can slow down the pace of climate change and avoid its worst consequences.
Mythbust
Tax the rich?
We’re often told that if you tax the rich more, they’ll pack up, take their money, and the economy will suffer.
The truth: While some wealthy individuals may try to minimise taxes, evidence from countries with higher progressive taxes shows that taxing the rich does not automatically lead to mass emigration or economic harm. Most wealth is tied to local businesses, property, networks, and markets, making large-scale flight impractical. When well designed, taxes on high earners and wealth can fund public services, reduce inequality, and support long-term economic growth without undermining economic stability.
So here’s the real question: Should the richest pay more?
Can I stop climate change?
Personal responsibility is important, but it is not the whole story. Recycling and buying green products help reduce harm, yet the climate crisis continues because the biggest polluters face little accountability. Meaningful solutions require stronger regulation, corporate responsibility, and large-scale action alongside individual effort.
Baseline Report 2025