Anneline Dreyer - Owner (Environmental Legal Services)

Anneline Dreyer who was employed as a legal advisor by Government where she gained experience in the drafting, updating and interpretation of legislation, prior to joining the SABS. 

She was involved with the establishment of the international ISO 14001 standard in South Africa on behalf of the SABS in 1996. She was subsequently appointed as the first environmental legal auditor to the SABS’s certification body for a period of 3 years. She has been in private practice as a legal advisor since 1999.  

She has undertaken intensive legal compliance audits within the industry and mining sectors alike including the auditing of environmental authorisations (EA’s), Integrated Water Use Licences, Waste Management Licences as well as performance assessments on approved EMPr’s. She has developed and presented in - house legal courses, as well as drafted numerous legal opinions on the implications and interpretation of Legislation.  

Philip Rudolph Dreyer - Owner (Kocks & Dreyer Attorneys)

Philip Dreyer is a practicing attorney who joined the Justice Department in 1987 where he was primarily involved with instituting and defending civil litigation at the instruction of the Minister and Director-general of Justice.  Apart from consultations and providing strategic legal advice he gained experience in the drafting of legal documents and legislation, interpretation of statutes as well as research into various fields of the Law. 

He left the Department at the end of 1994. Philip was a partner in a Law Firm based in Edenvale until the end of 2005 which specialized in Employment Law including Health and Safety. He became progressively involved in Environmental Law during this period.  Since 2005 his focus has shifted towards strategic legal advice in ensuring legal compliance and avoiding potential legal liability across the Environmental and Employment Law fields.  The latter includes Health and Safety. He has conducted numerous Legal Compliance Audits at various industries and mines including performance assessments and legal compliance audits on Environmental Management Programmes and Plans, Air - , Water - and Waste Licences as well as on authorisations for specific listed activities, during the last 17 years. 

Ruan Dreyer - Compliance Manager

Ruan is an Environmental Specialist specializing in Environmental Legal Compliance Auditing, Waste Management Licence Auditing, Water Use Licence Auditing, Waste Assessments, Environmental Legal Gap analysis, Compliance Monitoring to Environmental Authorizations (previously known as ROD’s) issued in terms of the National Environmental Management Act and Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) Environmental Audits (previously Performance Assessments) - Mining and non-mining EMPr's for Diamond Mines, Coal Mines, Gold Mines, Platinum Mines, Limestone Mines, Chemical Industry, Computer Manufacturing Industry, Railway Industry, Bearing Manufacturing Industry, Glass Manufacturing Industry, Construction Industry and Clutch Manufacturing Industry.

Ruan Dreyer has a B.Sc. Honours degree in Environmental Management - University of South Africa (UNISA) and a B.Sc. degree in Environmental and Biological Sciences - North West University (Potchefstroom). He has completed various ISO 14001 courses, Waste Management courses, Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment courses, a course in Game Ranch Management and several courses on Environmental Legal compliance, as well as a SAMTRAC course - NOSA.