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► A1.9.4.7_20080504SI :: ''City Council' township water-meter plans get flushed by high court judge'
| Call Number: |
A1.9.4.7_20080504SI |
| Identifier: |
AL3290_A1.9.4.7_20080504SI |
| Title: |
''City Council' township water-meter plans get flushed by high court judge' |
| Date: |
04 May 2008 |
| Subject: |
Anti-Privatisation Forum - APF;
City of Johannesburg - COJ;
Coalition against Water Privatisation (CAWP);
Constitutional Court;
Government;
Legal aid;
Poverty;
Prepaid meters - PPM;
Rights;
Sunday Independent;
Water |
| Description: |
This article titled "'City Council' township water-meter plans get flushed by high court judge" appeared in the Sunday Independent of May 4, 2008. As part of its tactical arsenal, the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) also embraced legal struggles - in this case initiating a 5 year long constitutional rights legal case against prepaid water meters and the associated sufficiency of the government's 'free water' lifeline, through the residents of Phiri, Soweto and the APF-run Coalition against Water Privatisation (CAWP). The article celebrates the legal ruling of the Johannesburg High Court in 2008 that declared prepaid water meters unconstitutional and ordered the City of Johannesburg to increase the 'free water' lifeline amount to poor residents. Unfortunately for the APF/CAWP, Phiri residents and indeed all poor communities, this ruling was subsequently over-turned on appeal to the Constitutional Court in 2009. Nonetheless, the case and the various struggles that accompanied it forced the government to shift its water policies and also sparked a range of water struggles both within South Africa and internationally.
Included in SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Transition's Child: The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF)' |
| Contributor: |
Photographer: Dale McKinley |
| Creator: |
Maureen Isaacson |
| Type: |
Newspaper article |
| Format: |
Access copy - pdf
Preservation copy - tiff |
| Source: |
SAHA collection AL3290 |
| Language: |
English |
| Coverage: |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Rights: |
Sunday Independent |
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