In this paper, we acknowledge that the literature has successfully articulated processes that
have brought about environmental injustices. However, it remains weak in its engagement
with processes that can or should contribute to the realisation of environmental justice, which
can be attributed mainly to the limited but popular perspective that has been championed
principally by the North American literature. We suggest that concerns with environmental
justice should go beyond the preoccupation with the evidence of injustice to encapsulate processes
and strategies for achieving environmental justice in its various forms. Empirically, this
implies the need to move away from the preoccupation with toxic waste as the main central
focus of the environmental justice literature. We argue that the processes and strategies for
achieving environmental justice are as important as the end results that we strive for, particularly
in areas of human settlements. To this end we used the case of Mfuleni Flood Relief
Project in Cape Town, as an empirical evidence of the complexity of resettlement as a ‘just’
process.