Ms Joanne Yawitch

Role:

Promote the enhancement of natural resources for sustainable equitable use and protect and enhance the quality and safety of the environment.

Functions:

• Promote and conserve our biological diversity and cultural and local natural resources and ensure the sustainable utilisation of resources for the benefit of the people of South Africa
• Protect the environment in the interest of the health and well being of the people of South Africa

• Provide environmental information in support of effective environmental management and public participation in environmental governance

Directorate: Administration

Ms Ranjini Pillay

A. Chief Directorate: Pollution & Waste Management

Ms Nolwazi Cobbinah

Role:

To protect the environment in the interest of the health and well being of the people of South Africa

Functions:

• Promote the prevention of Air Pollution.
• Develop and facilitate chemicals and hazardous waste management.

• Manage the Global Climate Change and Ozone Depletion Programme in South Africa.
• To develop and facilitate effective Waste Management and ensure integrated pollution prevention and control

• Internal and external communication

Mr Rantsadi Moatshe

Ms Kellelo Ntoampe

Ms Dee Fisher

Mr Obed Baloyi

Mr Sonnyboy Bapela

Role:

To implement and enforce pollution and waste management policy and legislation in a manner that encourages compliance with pollution and waste management authorisations, directives and agreements in order to protect the people’s right to an environment that is not harmful to health and well-being.

Functions:

• Administer and process all departmental pollution and waste related authorisations.
• Enforce compliance with authorisations and initiate legal proceedings in respect of pollution and waste offences.

• Investigate emergency incidents and possible cases of non-compliance notices, directives, court rulings, ect.

1. Ms Frances Craigie

Mr Sabelo Malaza

Ms Lize McCourt

Mr Wynand Fourie

Ms Sibusisiwe Hlela

Mr Dumisane Emmanuel Mthembu

Mr Peter Lukey

Role:

To ensure that reasonable legislative and other measures are developed, implemented and maintained in such a way as to protect and defend the right of all to air and atmospheric quality that is not harmful to health and well-being.

Functions:

 

 

• Build and maintain appropriate capacity (including: structures; systems; strategies; skills; incentives; and interrelationships) within the chief directorate to facilitate efficient and effective delivery of all chief directorate outputs required to meet the overall performance objective (i.e. role).

• Develop and implement clear, concise and measurable plans to direct all chief directorate work in respect of the efficient and effective delivery of all the chief directorate outputs required to meet the overall performance objective.

• Ensure that all staff have a clear understanding of the chief directorate, and their own personal, role and function and are directed, guided, assisted and supported in such a way that ensures efficient and effective service delivery, productivity, recognition and job satisfaction.

• Ensure that performance against, and efficacy of, implemented business plans is monitored in such a way as to ensure continued improvements in the delivery of air quality management and climate change services.

• Review, revise and/or amend legislation and regulation to meet the overall performance objective.

 

1. Directorate: Atmospheric Quality Information

Mr Tsietsi Mahema

Post vacant

3. Directorate: Air Quality Management

Mr Mazwi Lushaba