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United Nations
World Summit on Sustainable Development
Meets in South Africa

A series of interviews and articles
conducted and collected in South Africa

The following extended series of articles and interviews was gathered by In Motion Magazine in the context of the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26 - September 4, 2002. The interviews were conducted and later edited by Nic Paget-Clarke.


Interview with Joshua Sena Alouka
“They should contribute their local knowledge.”
Youth representative from Togo discusses
how to make sustainable development effective.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interview with Sindiswa Mahuza
Unemployed women create vegetable gardens
in Khayelitsha
"By having land people will create jobs for themselves"
Johannesburg, South Africa


Contours of Ecological Democracy
by L. Antonysamy
Dingidul, Tamil Nadu, India
Interview with Mandla Mentoor
The Soweto Mountain of Hope:
Making People Free
Soweto, South Africa

Interview with Walter Chakela
Playwright, poet, and arts administrator at
the Windybrow Centre for the Arts”
Johannesburg, South Africa
Justus Lavi Mwololo
speaks about Kenya’s agriculture
“Farmers, we have to put forward our agenda.”
"Johannesburg, South Africa

Interview with Eve Crowley
Respecting The Autonomy And Decisions Of The Poor
The Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Initiative
Johannesburg, South Africa
Waiting to start work
(7 photographs)
by Nic Paget-Clarke
Johannesburg, South Africa

Interview with Dr. Tewolde B. G. Egziabher
(Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia
and the Institute for Sustainable Development)
On farmer empowerment, genetic engineering
and global systems
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interview with Elfrieda Pschorn-Strauss
of Biowatch South Africa
GE crops, trade liberalization
and food sovereignty in southern Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa

Interview with Ela Gandhi
(Member of South African Parliament)
The Gandhian view on sustainable development
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interview with Silvia Rodriguez
Costa Rica's Biodiversity Law
Intellectual community rights are preeminent
to intellectual property rights
 Johannesburg, South Africa


Interview with Tom Goldtooth
 of the Indigenous Environmental Network
“First and foremost is our right to exist
and to make our own decisions ...”
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interview with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
of Tebtebba Foundation
an indigenous people’s policy research center
“Democracy in relation to how food is distributed"
Johannesburg, South Africa

Interview with Richard Haigh of The Valley Trust
Sustainable development -- "Participatory development”
KwaDedangendlale, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Interview with Vandana Shiva
Discussing “Water Wars”
Resurrection of commons, community rights,
and direct and basic democracy
Interview by Nic Paget-Clarke
Johannesburg, South Africa

Interview with Fred Kalibwani of PELUM
Community rights policy and small-scale farming
in eastern and southern Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
"GANGA" is not for sale
Suez - Degrémont and
the Privatization of Ganga Water
by Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri, Kunwar Jalees
New Delhi, India

WTO: The New Threats
to Developing Countries and Sustainability
by Martin Khor
Penang, Malaysia
Interview with Yin Shao Loong
of the Third World Network
Democracy at the International Level
Johannesburg, South Africa