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Activists gather at TotalEnergies offices to “Kick Polluters Out of Africa”

Campaign laid blame for South Africa’s skyrocketing electricity tariffs at the feet of the fossil fuel industry

Activists picket outside TotalEnergies’ offices in Johannesburg on Friday. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro
As TotalEnergies held its Annual General Meeting in France on Friday, climate activists gathered at the company’s Johannesburg headquarters to protest the fossil fuel industry.
The gathering was organised by the StopEACOP (East African Crude Oil Pipeline) Campaign and joined by several other climate justice organisations. It comes at the end of a global “week of action” in 19 countries.
StopEACOP’s primary aim is to protest TotalEnergies’ oil projects in East Africa, Mozambique and Namibia.
In a statement, the campaign also blamed South Africa’s skyrocketing electricity tariffs on the fossil fuel industry.
“For the country’s poorest families, the cost of electricity now exceeds spending on basic food items…

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