Bobby Peek - Director of groundWork

Bobby Peek - Director of groundWork

Bobby Peek is groundWork's Director. He has a Bachelor of Arts Honours from the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban. He previously worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at UKZN and Environmental Justice Networking Forum in Pietermaritzburg, after which he became one of the founding members of groundWork. In 1998, he won the Goldman Prize for Africa.

Environmental justice is about power relations and ensuring that there is equity amongst all peoples. From Bobby's first experience of corporate power – just after our hard fought for democracy in 1994 – being used against the community in which he lived in Wentworth, south Durban, he has been driven to seek ways of dismantling this corporate power so that we can have a true democracy as the basis of environmental justice in South Africa.