Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2002 (Accumulation)
- 2002 - 2014 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
5 DVDs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
AMSA - ArcelorMittal South Africa
CER - The Centre for Environmental Rights
VEJA - Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance
The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) is a non-profit company and law clinic based in Cape Town. Established in October 2009 by eight civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa’s environmental and environmental justice sector, the CER provides legal and related support to environmental CSOs and communities.
This collection relates to CER's work in promoting transparency and accountability in environmental governance, aimed at testing and assessing the extent to which civil society can access environmental information held by regulators and private entities.
Many of the records included in this collection were released to CER and / or CER partner organisations in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (PAIA), such as the Vanderbijlpark Environmental Master Plan, developed by ISCOR from 2000 to 2002 and released by ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) to the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA) in 2014 after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ordered AMSA to do so. The SCA judgment confirmed VEJA’s constitutional right to know the extent and impact of the steel giant’s activities on the Vaal communities’ health and the environment.
The aim of this collection is to establish a proper archive for CER’s third party documents and the next series of documents will include Eskom licences, compliance reports and health studies.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) released the Environmental Master Plan records to the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA) in hard copy. SAHA obtained scanned copies of the records from CER on five DVDs and through Dropbox. Scanned records will be accessible on the SAHA website, while print copies of the records can be consulted in the SAHA reading room.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Minimal access restrictions as majority of materials released in terms of PAIA.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
20150612