{"id":5462,"date":"2023-04-14T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/cape-town-youth-and-civil-society-take-to-the-streets-for-system-change"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:05","slug":"cape-town-youth-and-civil-society-take-to-the-streets-for-system-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/cape-town-youth-and-civil-society-take-to-the-streets-for-system-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town youth and civil society take to the streets for \u2018system change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/March_1681461188.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We want climate justice and we want it now!\u201d That was the message of the youth and civil society in Cape Town who took to the streets on Tuesday to \u201cMarch for System Change\u201d to mark Human Rights Day and to stand in solidarity with the global climate strike.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The march from Hanover Street to Parliament was organised by the African Climate Alliance, a youth-led climate justice group, and took place under the theme \u201cDon\u2019t Gas Africa\u201d to highlight the Don\u2019t Gas Africa campaign by African civil society to ensure Africa was not locked into fossil gas production.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cAfrican land is not a gas station. The growing threat to use Africa as a gas station has made it clear for the need to raise Africa\u2019s climate ambitions on the international agenda and Africa\u2019s ability to be a key stakeholder of a green clean global economy \u2013 not just a victim of the climate crisis,\u201d Bhebhe said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want climate justice and we want it now!\u201d That was the message of the youth and civil society in Cape Town who took to the streets on Tuesday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[27,25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-climate-justice","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}