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Releasing the National Compliance Enforcement Report in Pretoria, she pointed out that this decrease in convictions is a cause for concern, particularly in light of the increase in the total number of criminal dockets registered during the year under review.
But she pointed out that many cases have experienced substantial delays within the prosecution system, confirming the urgent need for dedicated courts to deal with these types of cases.
Nevertheless the report cheered her up by saying that the number of acquittals dropped from 441 in the previous year to 18.
A total of 4,661 environmental cases were reported nationally for the year to the end of March 2009. During this period the total number of criminal dockets registered was 2,412 compared with 1,762 in the previous reporting period.
The total amount of money raised by admission of guilt fines nearly doubled from 2007/08 from 744,706 rand to approximately 1.4 million rand in 2008/09.
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ENVIRONMENTAL inspections at industrial sites continue to find “a wide range of contraventions”, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in Pretoria yesterday.
“Inspections continue to detect non-compliance related to exceedances (sic) in emissions, illegal waste sites and contraventions of conditions across the range of authorisations,” Sonjica said, releasing the 2009 National Compliance and Enforcement Report, according to a statement from her office.
“While commitment to address these issues has been received in response to the inspection findings, with fairly drastic measures in some cases, enforcement action needs to be stepped up.”
Sonjica said a blitz on the cement sector identified lack of dust control – dust pollution as the major problem.
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