WESSA paid tribute to a wide range of outstanding environmental achievements with the presentation of the organisation’s Annual Awards. These Awards were presented at the organisation’s 90th AGM, and Mariette Liefferink of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment was one of the recipients.
Stryder van die Mynhope
Mariette Liefferink, omgewingsaktivis, is die blondekop wat TV-kykers van die nuus, van 50/50, of van Carte Blanche dikwels op mynhope sien rondstap. Corne Coetzee het met haar gesels.
ENVASS Conference
The Federation for a Sustainable Environment addressed the ENVASS conference in October. The conference is promoted as “one of a kind” and attempts to cover the most pertinent environmental matters applicable to the South African industry.
Kids deserve a safe environment
Enshrined in the Constitution is the right to an environment that is harmful to one’s health and wellbeing; and one that is protected for the benefit of present and future generations. This is central to the government’s sustainable development agenda, and also to Commissioner Janet Love’s portfolio on environment, natural resources and rural development
Civil Society: Alarmed by Sasol/Natref “dispute”
A number of civil society organisations have written an open letter to the Minister of Environmental Affairs about the attempts by Sasol and National Petroleum Rifiners of SA to set aside minimum emission standards defined in the Air Quality Act.
Ode aan SA se Erin Brockoviche
Moenie met ’n vrou mors nie, jy sal tweede kom. Suid-Afrika het ’n trotse geskiedenis van brawe vroue wat hier opgestaan het vir wat reg is. Frances Baard, Helen Suzman, Lilian Ngoyi, Patricia de Lille, Mariette Liefferink, Charlotte Maxeke, Irene Grootboom, Thuli Madonsela, Mamphela Ramphele en Sophia Williams-De Bruyn is almal vroue wat ons gedeelde […]
CUT’s Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences:Prestige Research Day
Mariette Liefferink, CEO of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment presented the Keynote address at the Central University of Technology, Free State.
New law a ‘free-for-all’ for property developers
A Federation of environment groups is to investigate taking legal action against proposed laws that they say would grant property developers a “free-for-all” and leave the environment with little, if any, protection against them.
A Conference and an Award
The Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE) hereby congratulates The National Association of Conservancies of South Africa (NACSA) and its Chairperson, Anthony Duigan, his wife, Helen Duigan and its Operations Director, Mercia Komen on a very successful “Seeding Sustainable Living: the power of conservancies” Conference, held at the Sizanani Conference Centre in Bronkhorstspruit on the […]
NGO’s action leads to a “first”
There is currently a paper being drafted which is believed will be for international distribution. The paper alleges that, with reference to the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment, NGOs are active for the very first time in the history of mine water management in South Africa.