LCP4805 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2026 – Due 20 March 2026

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QUESTION 1
Section 2(1) of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA)
states that the principles set out in the particular section apply to the actions of all
organs of state ‘‘that may significantly affect the environment’’.
1.1 List any five (5) environmental management principles in NEMA. You need to
include the relevant subsections in NEMA.

(5)
1.2 What is the purpose of the environmental management principles? Your answer
needs to refer to applicable case law and relevant sections in NEMA. (20)

[25]

QUESTION 2
Analyse how the concept of sustainable development supports and promotes the
establishment and growth of a ‘‘new democratic order’’ within the South African
constitutional dispensation.

(25)