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Wednesday February 18, 2009 22:52 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation - CAWP
Appeal Hearing To Take Place In Bloemfontein From 23rd – 25th February In its historic judgement handed down on the 30th April 2008, the Johannesburg High Court declared prepaid water meters both illegal and unconstitutional and ordered the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) to provide residents with 50 litres of free water per person/per day . Despite the judgement being celebrated by poor communities across South Africa and supported by a wide range of domestic and international unions, political parties and non-governmental organisations, Johannesburg Mayor, Amos Masondo – alongside Johannesburg Water and the Department of Water Affairs & Forestry (DWAF) – appealed the judgement. More recently, the National Treasury has applied to be an amicus in support of the appeal. And so, now into its sixth year, this landmark case to secure basic constitutional rights to water for all, heads to the SCA. The character of the appeal combined with the timing of the hearing, are particularly ironic.
* At the same time that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is making endless electoral promises to the poor about their rights to adequate, accessible and affordable basic needs/services, the ANC government’s own officials/departments are attempting to reverse one of the few legal rulings that gives positive effect to those rights. Something has gone horribly wrong when those who rule and speak in the name of democracy attempt to deny basic democratic/constitutional rights to those who are most in need. As CAWP has stated since the beginning of this case so many years ago, if the basic human and constitutional right to adequate, accessible and affordable water is enshrined in law as a commodified privilege only to be enjoyed by those who can afford it, then we have completely lost our way as a society. While CAWP, its legal team and all of those who are in support, hope that the SCA will uphold the Johannesburg High Court ruling, the struggle for water – both inside and outside the courts – will continue. While we will pursue the legal case to the Constitutional Court if necessary, we will never stop our collective defence of, and fight for, water to become what it always has been and always should be – a natural, public resource essential to all life, to be shared and enjoyed universally.
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