Deputy Minister for the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Narend Singh says the wetlands at Cape Agulhas has been declared a World Heritage site by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
Singh was speaking at the event in Cape Town to commemorate World Wetlands Day at Rondevlei in the False Bay Nature Reserve, a designated Ramsar site.
The commemoration takes place under the global theme: Wetlands and Traditional Knowledge: Celebrating Cultural Heritage.