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    Makana Enviro- News 106

    Busisiwe HohoBy Busisiwe HohoMay 24, 20102 Comments4 Mins Read
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    International training for local Environmental Manager
    Ndumiso Nongwe, Makana’s Environmental Manager, will be participating in an international
    training programme on local government environmental management in urban areas in Stockholm, from
    May 24 to June 10.

    International training for local Environmental Manager
    Ndumiso Nongwe, Makana’s Environmental Manager, will be participating in an international
    training programme on local government environmental management in urban areas in Stockholm, from
    May 24 to June 10.

    The programme is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the long-term goal of contributing to institutional strengthening and capacity development in the participants’ countries.

    Applicants had to submit proposals on their projects for change to improve local government environmental management in their home country.

    Training will focus on these projects to assist implementation in the respective municipalities. Twenty-fi ve candidates from  municipalities of varying size were selected from eight countries in Africa.

    Makana’s project for change  looked at alternative basic environmental services and technologies suitable for other localities of the  municipality and the establishment of localised community environmental centres in Makana.

    A followup programme with the same group will run in November in a region still to be determined and announced by Sida.

    Ward waste management initiative
    Makana Municipality, in collaboration with the Rhodes University Environmental Education and Sustainability Unit, is implementing a pilot waste management education and awareness project in a number of local wards
    that have been identifi ed as having particularly serious waste management issues.

    The main aim of the initiative is to educate, encourage and empower citizens in these wards to take responsibility and control over the management of waste in their areas so as to improve the living environment and reduce risk to human and environmental health.

    This will be done by helping people to manage the waste in their own houses, yards, schools, and businesses, including cafés, taverns and the street traders.

    Community  environmental facilitators have been appointed to work with the relevant ward councillors, ward  committees, schools, churches, clinics and other key institutions to fi rstly clean up some of the main  problem areas, and then to keep these areas clean through more careful waste management.

    Their role is to  provide basic education and support to their fellow citizens in their wards to implement action plans they  are developing with the ward committees. This pilot project is due to run from mid-May to the end of June  2010.

    The idea is to secure more funding in the future to roll this out to all wards in the municipality later this year or by early 2011.

    Grahamstown landfi ll site concerns
    Concerns have been raised about the state of the Grahamstown landfi ll site by Cindy Deutschmann, a  member of the Grahamstown Riding Club.

    In particular, she is concerned that incoming waste is not being covered. She also reports that the practice of dumping of amputated ostrich feet continues, and she has seen carcasses of donkeys, dogs and cats being dumped, unburied, at the tip.

    In addition, there are a  number of people living on the site on a semi-permanent basis, posing a health risk to themselves, and a  security risk to businesses around the tip.

    The activities of scrap metal scavengers who have been chased  away from the landfi ll site also create a fi re risk in the area.

    Deutschmann has addressed these concerns to  the municipality with a challenge to get their house in order on the site or the complaints will be taken to  a higher authority.

    A great freebie
    The Department of Environment Affairs (DEA) has recently published a very attractive Marine Recreational Activity Information Brochure with up-to-date information on the regulations that apply to recreational fi  shing in South Africa’s marine and estuarine environments, and scuba-diving and jet-ski use in Marine  Protected Areas (MPAs).

    The good news is that this brochure is available free of charge at the Grahamstown  Post Offi ce or from DEA: Private Bag X2, Roggebaai, 8012 or phone 021 402 3911.

    Contacts for Makana
    Enviro-News: Nikki Köhly: nkohly@yahoo. com, 046 636 1643 / Lawrence Sisitka: heilaw@imaginet.co.za, 046 622 8595 / Jenny Gon: j-gon@intekom. co.za, 046 622 5822 / Dan Wylie d.wylie@ru.ac.za, 046 603 8409 / Nick James: nickjames@intekom.co.za, 046 622 5757 / Strato Copteros strato@iafrica.com,082 785 6403

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