WCWJC – Workshop/Meeting/Capturing Water Film Screening
Join us Saturday for a meeting of the Western Cape Water Justice Coalition, workshop and screening of the documentary film ‘Capturing Water’.
PODILRIG 1.25 – WATER HAS NO GENDER, BUT IT HAS AN AGENDA
🎙️ PODILRIG – Newest podcast and addition to ILRIG’s grassroots popular education media. This platform serves social justice issues with a strong feminist focus, amplifying voices from the ground. In it’s first episode, they look at water struggles from Johannesburg and Cape Town to Palestine a feature the AWCC. They expose how neoliberal state policies …
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Cape Town’s water recycling project should not be privatised
Comment on the proposed Faure New Water Scheme closes on 17 April A group of water justice researchers has warned against the City of Cape Town’s proposal to “externalise” the implementation and operation of the Faure New Water Scheme. Read the full article in GroundUp here.
Stop the Faure Water Sell-Off: Cape Town’s Future Shouldn’t Be for Sale
An abridged version of this letter was published by GroundUp, 16 April 2025. A group of water justice researchers warn against the expensive disasters ahead if citizens agree to the City of Cape Town’s proposal to “externalise” the implementation and operation of the Faure New Water Scheme. The City of Cape Town (CoCT) wants to outsource …
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No To Water Privatization!
The City of Cape Town wants to outsource a very expensive very risky new water project to turn sewerage water into drinking water, called the Faure New Water Scheme. Under Section 78 of the Municipal Systems Act, they are obliged to get buy in via “consultation platforms.” Their main question to the public is: what …
‘The Water We Need’: Household Water Mapping as Ecofeminist Education and Research for the Water Commons
By Anna James, Faeza Meyer and Ebrahiem Fourie. Basic services are a critical nexus point for the realisation of sustainable cities. In South Africa, the failure to realise adequate and equitable basic services cements apartheid and colonial power relations, reproducing violent inequalities and relations of unsustainability. Water inequality has a disproportionate impact on women, who …
Water For Life – AWCC World Water Day Statement
Although the right to water is enshrined in our Constitution, many South Africans live every day without access to the water they need for basic survival—for drinking, washing, eating, health, religion, and more. The African Water Commons Collective (AWCC) has been working with communities across the Cape Flats and Witzenberg for over a decade to …
Screening & Panel Discussion: Capturing Water
Join us for a special screening of Capturing Water at Bertha House Bioscope in Mowbray, Cape Town, co-hosted by the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA). This powerful documentary by Rehad Desai explores the struggles of activists fighting for water justice in Cape Town. Following the screening, a panel discussion will feature:Rehad Desai (Director,)Dr. Koni Benson …
EMPTY PROMISES: The struggle for equitable access to water in South Africa
PARI has released a new report exploring the promises and realities of the Human Right to Water and access to water for all in South Africa. Read the full report compiled by Tracy Ledger, Mahlatse Rampedi and Ntokozo Ndhlovu here.