GGR345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: African National Congress, Durban City F.C., Market Garden
Document Summary
A glance at the history of waste management practices in south africa reveals an abysmal record of ineptitude, poor monitoring, and environmental injustice. People protesting and filing legal action about the waste sites. People in those areas demanded more than just monitoring and wanted a direct say in the management of these sites. This demand was well articulated in south durban: agreed that community members, cbos, Ngos, govt, and waste tech would jointly decide, negotiate, monitor and evaluate waste management sites together (first time in history that all these different groups and organizations of people could have input on waste facilities) Some successes but also a couple of setback offset that. Minister asmal said that the contract to continue dumping waste should be postponed until they agree with communities but it was too late because the permit renewal was given. Protests continued which eventually resulted in a promise from the mayor that the aloes landfill site would not be re-extended.
