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Summary – Errol Cerff

Errol began his career with the CSIR conducting estuarine surveys and providing advice on coastal management to local authorities. He was then involved in developing coastal management plans before the advent of the National Environmental Management Act. Since then, although he still consults on coastal management projects, he has diversified his expertise to a wider range of fields.
As he lives in a coastal city, Errol has maintained his connection to, and interest in, coastal projects. Many of the contracts he has been involved in were for coastal properties and he was involved in developing estuary management plans for two estuaries in the Western Cape. He was the project leader for the development of the Western Cape Provincial Coastal Access Strategy and plan as well as subsequent coastal access audits of the western cape coastline.

He is a qualified environmental auditor and management system consultant with experience in auditing a range of activities from post-construction audits to ongoing environmental risk assessments of manufacturing and mining concerns. Specifically, his involvement in phase one due diligence investigations for a number of organizations has given him the ability to identify possible pollution sources and impacts and then manage phase two detailed investigations to confirm the pollution and plan remediation.

He has participated in and managed environmental risk assessments and compiled environmental and waste management plans for heavy industry and SMMEs as well as construction companies. His involvement in enterprise-wide risk assessments has given a more strategic, business-based, and corporate governance approach to both environmental risk assessments and environmental management plans.

His strength is his ability to think outside of the box and adapt to a variety of situations and teams to provide pragmatic and practical solutions to environmental problems. His experience gained while participating in total quality management teams has enabled him to design management systems that dovetail smoothly with clients’ existing systems and do not exist as add-ons.

Education
All qualifications obtained at the University of Natal (Durban)

Professional registrations

Services Bouquet

• Strategic evaluation
• Strategic planning
• Environmental risk assessments
• Environmental audits
• Monitoring and evaluation programs
• Environmental strategy development
• Environmental management plans
• Waste minimisation
• Waste management plans
• Project management of environmental projects

Full Curriculum Vitae available upon request.

Summary – Erik Botha

Erik is a qualified and experienced environmental management practitioner and has been involved in and managed a wide range of projects ranging from basic assessments, impact assessments, environmental risk assessments, management systems design and implementation, due diligence investigations, management plans, waste management plans, and enterprise-wide risk assessments. These projects covered a wide range of public and private sector activities and included a variety of industries. The bulk of his project experience has been in the coastal region of South Africa, and he is very familiar with the salient issues and drivers associated with managing the coastal environment as well as inland industrial complexes.

Erik has been involved as a senior consultant in the coastal access audits for both the West Coast and Eden District Municipalities, in accordance with the Provincial Coastal Access Strategy and Plan. In 2018, He served as the Secretariat for the Saldanha Bay ADZ. During the course of the last three years, he has also been involved as a senior consultant in the coastal access audit and pilot study for the Overberg District, the development of the Coastal Access Strategy for the Western Cape, the development of a Limited Environmental Management Framework (EMF) in Support of the Mossel Bay Spatial Development Framework (SDF) as well as the facilitation and reporting on an Estuary Management Stakeholder Workshop for the Western Cape.

He also has extensive experience as an ECO, EO, and ESM on a variety of projects.
Erik is a member of IAIAsa, the Institute of Waste Management of South Africa