31 January 2021, 6:22 PM | Vanessa Poonah | @SABCNews
Image: Reuters [File photo] The trip will be led by pioneering explorer, Riaan Manser, and a team from Stellenbosch University.
A climate change activist from the Cape Flats is among a group of five matric learners setting off for Antarctica on an all-expenses-paid trip. The group won a competition, which saw over 3 000 thousand entries.
Led by pioneering explorer, Riaan Manser, and a team from Stellenbosch University, the group will spend five days on the virtually uninhabited continent.
Climate change activist, Ayakha Melithafa from Khayelitsha explains her winning entry.
“I decided to join Project 90 by 2030, which is an environmental organisation that strives for low carbon generation by 2030. From then on, it taught me more about climate change, how to actually adopt to climate change; how to mitigate and also what we