Inaugural lecture of Professor Tumai Murombo
| When: | Wednesday, 19 October 2022 - Wednesday, 19 October 2022 |
| Where: | Hybrid Event Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Solomon Mahlangu House, Braamfontein Campus East |
| Start time: | 17:00 |
| Enquiries: | Kelebogile Tadi Kelebogile.Tadi@wits.ac.za |
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Transforming water resource governance framework in South Africa using an ‘untransformed’ law: The courts and the National Water Act of 1998.
The National Water Act 32 of 1998 has been praised as a ground-breaking law setting a global standard for countries that seek to transform their environmental laws and water governance regimes. It is applauded for introducing modern concepts that ensure integrated water resources management, transforming pre-democracy entrenched private water rights by making water a public resource under the trusteeship of the state.
These projected qualities of the legislation mask a compromised legal reform process where laws meant to transform natural resource governance, have served to perpetuate entrenched rights to the detriment of historically disadvantaged individuals who continue to struggle to access water, and other natural resources, equitably.
By analysing recent South African jurisprudence, this lecture broadly demonstrates the need for overdue reforms to environmental and resource governance laws to enable true transformation.
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