According to Kothler, South Africa doesn't have enough water and it is ranked the 30th driest country in the world, this results to South Africa  experiencing droughts because its ground water resources are scarce. According to Sarkodie and Adams Acces to energy technologies is expensive, and inadequate access of electricity promotes poverty, inequality and distructs the government revenues.

According to Calma social justice is fairness beyond individual justice. Environmental social justice is a specific form of social justice  which aims to address  equity and fairness resulting from environmental problems.

According to Zabala and Sulivan, a wetland programme (WFW) had 40 projects in South Africa which targeted all wetlands and created employment for close to 2000 people, and it addressed the severe environmental degradation experiences in the wetlands all over South Africa.

In SA there isn't enough water which then results to SA experiencing droughts  every now and then, while  Mpumalanga has the worst air quality in South Africa as it hosts  eskom power plants, this leads to air pollution whuch leads to natural disasters such as acid rains etc. Even though the  entire country gets  affected by these natural disasters, the effects  are not experienced equally  amongst  the poor, middle-class  and rich.