Broad spectrum of civil rights and environmental organisations will take part in a protest action in support of the global day against fracking, the Global Frackdown. The protest is also championing energy justice and is in commemoration of the death of Nigerian activist Ken Saro Wiwa in 1995. The anti-fracking protest march is scheduled for Cape Town on Friday, 18 October 2013.  
 
The event will commence at 12:30 at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) campus. Marchers will proceed to and past Parliament and will culminate with the handover of letters to Shell at the offices of Shell SA (the local subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell).
 
Representatives from civil rights organisation AfriForum, Treasure the Karoo Action Group, the Greater Cape Town Civic Alliance, the Khoisan community of the Eastern Cape, Ogoni Solidarity Forum, Earthlife, Climate Justice Campaign, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, the South African Catholic Bishops Conference, SAFCEI, and other faith-based and civic organisations are expected to take part.
 
The event takes place a day ahead of Global Frackdown on October 19 – an event initiated in the United States.  Media interviews can be arranged outside the offices of Shell at 10 Rua Vasco Da Gama, foreshore.
 
Jonathan Deal
CEO: Treasure the Karoo Action Group
Cell: 076 838 5150
Landline: 023 358 9903
 
Julius Kleynhans
Head: Environmental Affairs
AfriForum
Cell: 082 829 9182
E-mail: julius@afriforum.co.za

Elzane Grobbelaar
Treasure the Karoo Action Group
Office: 021 824 2935
E-mail: admin@treasurethekaroo.co.za