Company
Profile
HLEM Environmental
Management is two
companies run as one entity
Hlengiwe
Luthuli Environmental Management (Pty) Ltd is a specialist
environmental
management company that was concieved of, set up and financed entirely
by
Michael Hickman in July 2017. Michael Hickman gave his wife Hlengiwe Luthuli
50 percent shares in the
company and made Hlengiwe Luthuli the CEO in July 2018. Michael Hickman
employed himself as the general and technical manager. All contracting
requiring the employment of workers is undertaken by this company.
HLEM (Pty) Ltd which is presently
solely owned and run by Michael Hickman undertakes activities
such as, project management, consulting, training, plant
identification, nursery production and
farming.
Hlengiwe Luthuli Environmental
Management was set up primarily in appreciation for the love and
care that Hlengiwe Luthuli has show him over many years in particular
when he was critically ill with hepatorenal syndrome caused by organic
arsenic, chrome, copper poisoning to leave as a legacy for Hlengiwe
Luthuli.
In due
course HLEM (Pty) Ltd and Hlengiwe Luthuli Environmental Management
(Pty) Ltd will
be handed over entirely to Hlengiwe Luthuli.
HLEM Environmental Management
under the close supervision of Michael Hickman
strives
towards professionalism and excellence in everything that it sets out
to do, in particular
to give the
best possible
service to the client and in the process to employ and to empower
formally
mostly disadvantaged
Bantu women
HLEM Environmental
Management has
been
endorsed by and will be supported by some of the very top experts and
companies in the Environmental and Landscape Industry in the region
many of whom will work in association with HLEM Environmental
Management on projects,
as experts, as well as partners where the need arises.
HLEM Environmental Management is
run
jointly by Michael and Hlengiwe with Michael being there to
guide, to teach and to mentor Hlengiwe in the finer points required to
successfully run such a specialist business.
This website was designed by and is owned and maintained soley by
Michael
Hickman
Michael Hickman www.ecoman.co.za
continues to provide invaluable
environmental, local plant, landscape, horticultural
knowledge as well as management experience gained over 51 years to
Hlengiwe Luthuli.
Hlengiwe Luthuli Experience
Hlengiwe has worked together with and has been trained and mentored by
her husband Michael Hickman of Ecoman since 2008, firstly on the
eThekwini
Municipality Green Roof Pilot Project, thereafter she has been involved
in the planning and implementation of a number of other green roof
projects. Hlengiwe has also been involved in
many landscape projects utilising only local indigenous plants from
design to implementation, rehabilitation of coastal dune systems,
rehabilitation of natural ecosystems and alien invasive weed control in
sensitive natural ecosystems.
Hlengiwe worked for two years for
Ziyenzeka Weed Control firstly as team manager doing alien weed control
as part of the rehabilitation project at the King Shaka International
Airport under the mentorship of Michael Hickman. Thereafter
Hlengiwe very eficiently
managed the invasive alien eradication and control project at Mount
Moreland Conservancy for Ziyenzeka Weed Control. Michael Hickman
of Ecoman provided mentorship as well as environmental and
technical direction where
required on both projects.
Since July 2018 Hlengiwe has worked full time as the CEO of Hlengiwe Luthuli Environmental Management
under
the mentorship of Michael Hickman.
Our
main fields of acivity
Identification
of
Plants both indigenous as well as alien
weeds
Vegetation
assessments
Alien weed
control
Rehabilitation
and
care of the natural environment
Plant rescue
Landscaping
using
exclusively indigenous plants
Green roof
design
and construction
Training of
staff for other environmental management companies
Practical
training for obtaining a pest control operator certificate PCO
Industrial and Noxious Weeds and Landscape
Consulting
Project
management
Our Expertise
Apart from our own
considerable expertise spanning a period of 51 years gained in South
Africa, Germany and New Zealand we have a number of associates who
are recognised experts in their fields that we can call upon if
required.
Standards
We only work to the very highest
of international standards.
Plants
All plants used by HLEM
in landscape construction as well as in restoration of natural
ecosystems will only be sourced from our own nursery or nurseries that
supply plants of
the highest quality possible.
Address
Physical
Address
7 Agnes
Street
Mount
Moreland
Durban
Postal
Address
PO Box 60
4345 Mount
Moreland
Durban
Michael
Hickman Mobile: 082
061
2593
Hlengiwe
Luthuli Mobile : 082
7744 059
Michael Hickman licenced Pest
Control
Operator
Registered to apply both herbicides and pecticides for weed control and
for landscape application.
Pest Control Operator Certificate
PCO Registration 2023-2026
Hlengiwe Luthuli licenced Pest
Control
Operator
Registered to apply herbicides for weed control
The HLEM team leaders
Michael and Hlengiwe
Hlengiwe's son Mlondi is the new member of our team
employed as a trainee environmental manager