This week, South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) held the Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Lekgotla in Rustenburg in the North West Province. The theme for this year’s lekgotla was “Power of the Past-Force of the Future:...
Department of Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has announced her intention to amend certain provisions of the National Environmental Management Act and specific environmental management acts through the National Environmental Management...
New developments are emerging in South Africa’s national conversation on using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology to release shale gas in the Karoo. These include the publication of the updated Regulations for Petroleum Exploration and...
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has confirmed that the Green Scorpions executed a search warrant at the Solid Waste Technologies’ City Deep, Johannesburg, processing facility last month. The company has been prosecuted in the past for...