Chairman Statement 2024
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 [...]
CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT – 30th MARCH 2023
CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT YEAR ENDED 30TH MARCH 2023 Sewage pollution of Vaal Dam and the Vaal River by the Metsimaholo and Emfuleni Municipalities’ waste water treatment systems remain the biggest threat to the Vaal area [...]
PRESS STATEMENT: 8 YEAR OLD COMPLETES LDYC ROUND THE ISLAND RACE
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, [...]
SAVE RESPONSE TO MINISTER OF WATER AND SANITATION
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 [...]
PRESS STATEMENT 27th MARCH 2019
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 [...]
MEDIA STATEMENT 21st JANUARY 2019
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 [...]
PRESS STATEMENT 22nd APRIL 2018
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 [...]