Tasneem Essop | Executive Director of Climate Action Network

"There's nothing like watching the home that you live in being demolished by bulldozers to make you politically conscious." Growing up in Cape Town's District 6 in the 1970s, Tasneem experienced racial segregation, forced eviction and discrimination first hand. Her anti-apartheid activism eventually took her into politics, serving as a provincial environment minister in South Africa’s post-apartheid ANC government. As a radical minister within a conservative bureaucracy, Tasneem fought to con...

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