PINDA AND MKHWANAZI COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP APPLIED IN REPOSITIONING A STRESSED SOUTH AFRICAN STATE
BY DR FUMENE GEORGE TSIBANI:
The author believes Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and writer Zola Pinda have contextualised the SA crisis. (Image: SABC)
Both Zola Pinda and Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi argue that South Africa stands at a convergence of crises that can no longer be treated in isolation, a view that I believe applies in the context of recycling in the country.
Climate change, rapid urbanisation, the proliferation of informal settlements across all 257 municipalities, fiscal constraint, and persistent unemployment demand a response that is at once environmental, economic and institutional. Within this matrix, recycling is too often relegated to the margins as a municipal hygiene function or a civil society awareness campaign. That framing must...