Coalition Building - State Capture and Beyond

A coalition is born

Gauteng civic organisations fighting municipal mismanagement have formed an alliance – Civic Action for Democracy and Equality. Nowhere is the mismanagement, corruption and poor accountability felt more than in the severe water crisis that’s hitting the province. A consultative process giving community based organisation primacy, agreed a joint platform of water justice demands.

Civic Action for Democracy and Equality Demands:

Universal Access to Water:

The City of Johannesburg must increase the Free Basic Water Allocation to 100 litres per person, per day, for all residents.
The City of Johannesburg must provide water free of charge, regardless of the FBWA, to the poorest households based on a municipal indigent list co-produced by communities and the city.
Prepaid and SMART meters must not be designed to extract profit for water services from the city’s poorest communities.
Meters are only to ensure the equitable distribution of water.

Basic Level of Service:

All households must have piped water as a basic level of service.
An end to the use of water tankers, community JoJo tanks and community standpipes for water service provision.

Active Participation in Water Service Delivery

The scrapping of Johannesburg Water to end the privatisation of water services.
Water services must fall directly under the City of Johannesburg.
There must be fair and equal participation of community members, and communities, in decision making processes of water services.