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TheCape Town Ecology Group was aSouth Africa-based radical environmental group, founded in 1987, as a "child of Koeberg Alert", and active until the early 1990s. It espoused a more political-orientedgreen ideology as opposed to the apartheid-based conservation groups of the time. According to founder Mike Cope: "We felt the need to view ecological issues on a broader level and recognised the connection between politics and ecology. Ecology is definitely a political issue because environmental issues are about where we live."[1]
It co-hostedSouth Africa's first conference on the environment,[2] in conjunction with the Western Cape Branch of theWorld Conference on Religion and Peace and theCall of Islam in 1991. The National Conference on Environment and Development was held at the University of the Western Cape and some 231 representatives from a wide range of organisations discussed the links betweenenvironmental degradation and the political situation in Southern Africa. The three-day conference aimed to "Ecologise Politics, Politicise Ecology" and was considered a breakthrough for its time.
According to conference organiser, Phakamile Tshazibane: "For the first time groups such as theCongress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu), thePan Africanist Congress (PAC) and theAfrican National Congress (ANC), found common ground around the issue of the environment."
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