
Caroline Marx
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Caroline Marx
I am an accidental activist who has always been passionate about health. Individual, community and environmental health which are so entwined they cannot be separated. A pharmacist by profession, with a background in hospital and community pharmacy and education, I have worked in health risk management for the past twenty years. I have come to realise that although South Africa has excellent environmental laws enshrined in the Constitution, compliance is often treated as optional — a nice to have rather than a compulsory requirement.I have always loved rivers and the ocean and my activism, with the support of local community based organizations and the assistance of OUTA (Organization Undoing Tax Abuse), has become focused on holding organizations and individuals responsible both socially and legally, for polluting the waters of the Cape. I believe every one of us has a role to play in actively choosing a future that our grandchildren will want to inherit.