Anti-Nuclear Activists Felicitated: Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid Acceptance Speech, 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize [Watch]
As grassroots activists, Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakala built a broad coalition to stop the South African government’s massive secret nuclear deal with Russia. On April 26, 2017, the High Court ruled that the $76 billion nuclear power project was unconstitutional—a landmark legal victory that protected South Africa from an unprecedented expansion of the nuclear industry and production of radioactive waste.