Kobus Vorster's research while affiliated with Tshwane University of Technology and other places
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Publications (2)
Tshwane is presently landfilling all of its municipal solid waste (MSW) with no pre-processing or minimization efforts. This is a result of the available capacity of its existing landfills, thought to be able to satisfy the city's needs for, at most, the next 10 years. It is possible that the authorities will not wake up to the problem before it is...
Excessive MSW production is a growing management problem for cities in developing countries, such as South Africa. This study addresses these challenges with particular focus on the City of Tshwane. A major problem in Tshwane is that all the MSW generated in the city, including garden waste, is currently being landfilled. A waste stream analysis of...
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... However, some words which had a high incidence around the year 2015 included "MSW" and "developing country" ( Figure 10). The studies on those keywords included: co-operatives as a development mechanism to support job creation and sustainable waste management in South Africa [76], sustainable solid waste management in developing countries, and studies of the institutional factors involved in the management of solid wastes in Johannesburg [17], status of MSWM policy implementation in developing countries [77], sustainability of composting as an alternative waste management option for developing countries [78], and the characterization, recovery, and recycling potential of solid waste amongst some of the local universities [79]. The results showed that co-operatives may play an important role in the formalization of the informal waste sector in the developing countries. ...
... Makole, Ntshangase and Msosa (2022) criticized the silos system of operation of the CoT with advice to streamline their Integrated Development Plan with the National Development Plan with a strategy to align service delivery and socio-economic development pathways. Snyman and Vorster (2011) maintained that CoT had been immune to service delivery protests, but this has since changed with the city being ravaged by protests with 20% of the service delivery protests in Gauteng province occurring in the CoT (Ndlovu, 2015) and in the City of Johannesburg (Ragolane, 2022). According to Damoah (2023), service delivery protests are caused by inequality, poor service, corruption, joblessness, poverty and lack of good governance in SA. ...
