18 year old South African climate justice activist, Ayakha Melithafa from Cape Town is calling on young South Africans to unite in the fight against climate change. Melithafa and another young climate activist from Uganda,-Vanessa Nakate took part in the virtual 10th Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture last night. They participated along with global climate change activist Christiana Fugueres, - who says greenhouse gas emissions should be cut globally by 50-percent within the next decade,- to save the world from further destruction. The annual peace lecture coincided with Tutu's 89th birthday on 7 October. Former US Vice President and climate activist Al Gore, African human and environmental rights activist Kumi Naidoo, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, environmental and human rights activist Mor Gilboa, Moulana Abdul Khaliq-Allie of the South African Muslim Judicial Council and South African Council of Churches Secretary General Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana,- all sent their birthday messages to the retired Anglican Archbishop. Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more.

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