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Alex Lenferna

Alex Lenferna is general secretary of the Climate Justice Coalition and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Nelson Mandela University Department of Development Studies.

Latest Work

Doing deals with white devils — avoiding a Faustian pact with fossil-fuelled fascists

Op-eds

28 September 2025

Doing deals with white devils — avoiding a Faustian pact with fossil-fuelled fascists

By Alex Lenferna

8 min

Opinionistas

22 August 2023

Despite Mantashe’s claims, the evidence is clear – clean coal is a dirty lie and economically unviable

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

In service of honourable Minister Mantashe, we must expose the foreign-funded forces trying to destroy our future

Our Burning Planet, South Africa, World

17 May 2023

In service of honourable Minister Mantashe, we must expose the foreign-funded forces trying to destroy our future

By Alex Lenferna

1 min

Opinionistas

24 January 2023

Does South Africa deserve climate reparations?

By Alex Lenferna

19 min

Opinionistas

30 January 2022

It’s not ‘foreign forces’ — it is the people of South Africa who are fed up with Gwede Mantashe and the DMRE

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

Opinionistas

6 December 2021

Shell boycott can be a turning point to reckon with unholy alliance between fossil fuel corporations and governments destroying our future

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

Opinionistas

24 September 2021

Will Gwede Mantashe doom Eskom's future?

By Alex Lenferna

4 min

Opinionistas

23 May 2021

Time to resist manufactured load shedding crisis and Mantashe’s gas road to nowhere

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

Gwede Mantashe condemns us to deepening load shedding

Maverick Citizen, Our Burning Planet, South Africa

23 March 2021

Gwede Mantashe condemns us to deepening load shedding

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

The environmental hypocrisy of minister Creecy and the ANC

Maverick Citizen, South Africa

23 February 2021

The environmental hypocrisy of minister Creecy and the ANC

By Alex Lenferna

5 min

Ramaphosa’s plan: Economic recovery for the few, ecological devastation for many

Maverick Citizen, Our Burning Planet, South Africa

25 October 2020

Ramaphosa’s plan: Economic recovery for the few, ecological devastation for many

By Alex Lenferna

4 min

Opinionistas

17 June 2020

Gwede Mantashe’s nuclear fantasies are a dangerous distraction

By Alex Lenferna

4 min

DM is much better if you are signed in...

Defend Truth

Latest Work

Doing deals with white devils — avoiding a Faustian pact with fossil-fuelled fascists

Despite Mantashe’s claims, the evidence is clear – clean coal is a dirty lie and economically unviable

In service of honourable Minister Mantashe, we must expose the foreign-funded forces trying to destroy our future

Does South Africa deserve climate reparations?

It’s not ‘foreign forces’ — it is the people of South Africa who are fed up with Gwede Mantashe and the DMRE

Shell boycott can be a turning point to reckon with unholy alliance between fossil fuel corporations and governments destroying our future

Will Gwede Mantashe doom Eskom's future?

Time to resist manufactured load shedding crisis and Mantashe’s gas road to nowhere

Gwede Mantashe condemns us to deepening load shedding

The environmental hypocrisy of minister Creecy and the ANC

Ramaphosa’s plan: Economic recovery for the few, ecological devastation for many

Gwede Mantashe’s nuclear fantasies are a dangerous distraction