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Thursday 8th October 2009
JUDGMENT SHOWS A LAZY LEGALISM AND WHOLLY BIASED AND CONTRADICTORY REASONING IN RULING THAT FREE BASIC WATER POLICY IS ‘REASONABLE’ AND PRE-PAID WATER METERS ARE ‘LAWFUL’ Read the rest of this entry »
Phiri Water Case: Constitutional Court Fails the Poor and the Constitution
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Tags: Coalition Against Water Privitisation, Constitutional Court, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Phiri, Supreme Court of Appeal
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Media: Jo’burg water policy discriminatory, court told
3 09 2009
JENNI O’GRADY
Sep 02 2009 14:45 – M&G
The City of Johannesburg’s policy of not offering water on credit to residents of Phiri, Soweto, as it does elsewhere in the city, is discriminatory, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday.
“I accept that the problem [of non-payment] requires a solution, but why did it differ from the solution that applied in white Johannesburg?” asked advocate Wim Trengove, arguing for a group of Phiri residents in a case about the lawfulness of prepaid water meters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: City of Johannesburg, Phiri, prepaid water meters, Wim Trengove
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Film release: Amanzi Ngawethu (Water is Ours)
31 08 2009Sunday 30 August 2009 – APF
Six year legal battle for water rights in South African reaches Constitutional Court on 2nd Sept
Amanzi Ngawethu (Water is Ours) is spreading the word about a critical moment for water struggles in South Africa. Please forward and spread the news far and wide!
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Tags: Amanzi Ngawethu, Phiri, Water is a right, Water is Ours
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Phiri Water Rights Case Heads To The Constitutional Cout on 2 and 3 September 2009
26 08 2009PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Johannesburg, 26 August 2009
The Mazibuko appeal against the SCA judgment of 30 April 2009 will be heard in the Constitutional Court, where the applicants will argue that prepayment water meters in Phiri should be declared unlawful, and that the City’s Free Basic Water policy is insufficient to meet the basic needs of poor Phiri households.
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Tags: Anti-Privatisation Forum, Coalition Against Water Privitisation, JACKIE DUGARD, Mazibuko, Nadine Fourie, Phiri, Wim Trengove
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