Anna Weekes

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Anna Weekes has just completed a PhD in journalism and is a community activist and journalist based in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.

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Coal-dependent South Africa struggles to make just energy transition real

Anna Weekes 11 Nov 2025

Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation leader Fikile Ntshangase was killed in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition

Anna Weekes 23 Oct 2025

Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Weekes 26 Apr 2023

A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 2022

People wait on the Kasai bank to cross the river.

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Anna Weekes 4 Oct 2022

A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Weekes 11 Aug 2022

A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022

A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Weekes 29 Jun 2022

Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Collage: Elise Paietta, postdoctoral research scholar during fieldwork, with tropical forest

Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

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