Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid, 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, South Africa

Publisher:
Goldman Environmental Prize
Publication Date:
23 April 2018
Tags:
South Africa, Energy, Environment

As grassroots activists, Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakala built a broad coalition to stop the South African government's massive secret nuclear deal with Russia. On April 26, 2017, the High Court ruled that the $76 billion nuclear power project was unconstitutional-a landmark legal victory that protected South Africa from an unprecedented expansion of the nuclear industry and production of radioactive waste.

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