Government Gazette REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Vol. 525 Cape Town 10 March 2009 No. 32000 THE PRESIDENCY No. 278 10 March 2009 It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act, which is hereby published for general information:? No. 59 of 2008: National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008. AIDS HELPLINE: 0800-123-22 Prevention is the cure 2 No. 32000 Act No. 59, 2008 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10 MARCH 2009 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: WASTE ACT. 2008 (English text signed by the President.) (Assented to 6 March 2009.) ACT To reform the law regulating waste management in order to protect health and the environment by providing reasonable measures for the prevention of pollution and ecological degradation and for securing ecologically sustainable development; to provide for institutional arrangements and planning matters; to provide for national norms and standards for regulating the management of waste by all spheres of government; to provide for specific was...