Hands-On: Creecy’s Approach To Climate Change Premised On Fighting Rising Tide of Denialism

THEBE MABANGA|

THE Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs, Barbara Creecy, may relish her role as South Africa’s environmental ‘Czar’ who is driven by a sense of social justice and concern for improving people’s lives.  

Being the environment minister is merely the latest in a long list of roles she has played in her adult life – especially in helping to shape the democratic South Africa.

“I have been blessed” she says pointedly.

“I have had an opportunity to do many interesting things that touch people’s lives in a positive way”.

Creecy is referring to her long and distinguished career in politics – gained through the study of politics at Wits University and activism.

Creecy says in the two years since she assumed the role in the national Cabinet, she has found that “every day is a working day,” including the Freedom Day public holiday, when she spoke