27th June 2011

Hard day at work, putting in new computer system, alot of info to take in. Got the Leonard Cohen exhibition coming up. Think I may be working, sigh.  Will have to make a plan. Just made a lovely stew, the smell filling the house with anticipation.  My angelic child cleaned up the house, says shes going to try and be nicer to me as she realises shes been mean lately...gosh hope that lasts!!

 Greenpeace hits Eskom

At dawn today Greenpeace Africa activists used three tipper trucks to unload five tons of coal in front of Eskom’s Megawatt Park offices, effectively blocking the office park’s main entrance and causing a huge traffic jam in Sunninghill.

The action was intended to highlight the cost of Eskom’s heavy reliance on coal for power: environmental destruction, the pollution of scarce water supplies and the destruction of people’s health and wellbeing.

The environmental activists started their operation shortly before rush hour. With them were three tipper trucks coming off the highway along with a van full of support staff who quickly set up their traffic cones and unfurled a banner reading: “Eskom clean up your act”.

The three tippers dumped their coal loads at the main entrance to Eskom’s head office, causing a snarl-up at the alternative entrance, and a traffic back-up along Maxwell Drive.