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123 TWENTY YEAR REVIEW sustainable development 6124 sustainable development WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA INHERITED IN 1994 The apartheid government largely ignored issues of sustainability during its time in power, building the country s economy around energy- and resource-intensive sectors, such as mining and agriculture. The era before 1994 was characterised by exclusionary, fragmented environmental legislation and policies that failed to promote sustainable apartheid government did little to regulate issues like pollution, enforce land rehabilitation or manage limited resources like water in an egalitarian, sustainable fashion. Economic development was pursued at the expense of the environment, with fossil-based sectors shielded from stringent regulation.
The white-dominated agricultural sector consumed 60 percent of the country’s water. ... development of the country’s coastline. In ... Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. The total area covered by these four shared catchments in South Africa is equal to about 60 percent of the country’s surface
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