This thesis analyses how the Fridays for Future movement is framed in national South African newspapers. The aim of the study is to examine frames and discourses with reference to local debates about the climate crisis and the need for reduction of carbon emissions, balanced with an understanding of the need for economic and social development. This study have taken inspiration from former scholars on research concerning media framing of environmental social movements and climate change in the global South and function as an extension and complement to these scholar's work. To fulfil the aim we have created a dataset from three leading English language newspapers in South Africa and coded the data according to frame theory and thematic discourse analysis. The study reveals that there are different perceptions and interpretations of the Fridays for Future movement within the South African media and not only one universal frame. Thus, previous scholar's understandings of climate responsibility as an elitist issue lingers but also that the acknowledge to environmental responsibility and the Fridays for Future movement is generally accepted with only a few refusals.