Take good care of our environment

The Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi, recently planted a tree during the World Environment Day at Muvimbi Primary School.

She said her department was conscious of the importance of the environment. “There is a need to remind our people that it is good to care for our environment. We are deeply concerned about the people who do not respect our natural resources like trees. Cutting down trees unnecessarily has a negative impact on our ecosystem,” she added.

She mentioned that the government had been engaged in the preservation of the environment for a long time and that they had programmes aimed at educating their staff members and communities about the importance of nature. She described the destroying of natural resources such as trees as painful.

According to Mabudafhasi, taking care of the environment is part of people´s commitment to be good corporate citizens. “We need to develop a sense of environmental responsibility, which is so essential in our everyday life.” She said that the absence of an environmental responsibility was causing problems in the streets, residential areas, market places and other public places. “This leaves all you responsible citizens with a burden to shoulder. I am confident that you have the capacity of not only shouldering this burden, but also to influence people to follow environmental discipline,” she said.

Khosi Vho-Michael Masakona added that environmental protection was an initiative that would benefit everyone and that it would continue to benefit the future generations. 
“We want to send a clear message that it is important to conserve our environment because caring for our environment is the first step towards tourist attraction. A clean environment ensures balance in nature and also helps to make our town attractive.”

Date:17 June 2015

By: Kaizer Nengovhela

Kaizer Nengovhela started writing stories for Limpopo Mirror in 2000. Prior to that he had a five year stint at Phala-Phala FM as sports presenter. In 2005 Kaizer received an award from the province's premier as Best Sports Presenter. The same year he was also nominated as Best Sports Reporter by the Makhado Municipality. Kaizer was awarded the Mathatha Tsedu award in 2014.

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