Welcome Overview: Two issues have dominated the financial year: The Court order of 23 June 2023 required the DWS Minister to provide an action plan to stop sewage pollution of the Vaal River from the [...]

  AGENDA FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY 10TH AUGUST 2025 @10AM AT LUCIANA COUNTRY ESTATE, Vaal River Road, Parys district. WELCOME AND APOLOGIES CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT FINANCES COMMITTEE MEMBERS: NEW NOMINATIONS - [...]

CHAIRMAN’ S STATEMENT 2024 Welcome Overview: Two serious issues have dominated the financial year: In the first half, SAVE took a quantum leap forward with a court order against the three levels of Government, including [...]

Press Statement 23 February 2020. 8 year old completes LDYC Round the Island Race. Callie van Niekerk, a junior sailor at LDYC was 7 years old when he won his first race.  This year, [...]

Vaal River pollution: SAVE response to Minister of Water and Sanitation announcement re plans to stop pollution by March 2020 Environmental group, SAVE the VAAL, says that the Minister of Water and Sanitation’s recent announcement about the short-term [...]

Vaal River Pollution: Save the Vaal (SAVE) has applied to the High Court to join key government role players to the structural interdict obtained against the Emfuleni Local Municipality in 2018. This order called for the Emfuleni [...]

PRESS STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO SANDF MEDIA BRIEFING ON MONDAY 21 JANUARY 2018 SAVE the VAAL is shocked to learn of the bureaucratic bungling has resulted in the Government’s failure to release much needed funding to resolve [...]

 EMFULENI SEWAGE CHAOS The sewage crisis in Emfuleni along the banks of the Vaal River has caused unbearable living conditions to residents.  SAVE the VAAL met with members of Emfuleni’s Sanitation team to verify what [...]