Webinar | Self-supply – lessons from Harrismith’s ‘Water Heroes’

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the Water Rights Webinar Series Self-supply – lessons from Harrismith’s ‘Water Heroes’ “Maluti-a-Phofung – a community doing it for themselves” is one of four cases in SERI’s Claiming Water Rights in South Africa research series. The case documents the efforts of an unusual coalition of residents and community leaders...

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Webinar | Provincial Intervention in a Municipal Crisis – Lessons from Makana

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the Water Rights Webinar Series Provincial intervention in a municipal crisis: Lessons from Makana Makana is a municipality in crisis. It faces various service delivery, administrative and financial challenges. Water supply across the municipality, and in Makhanda in particular, has been crippled by aging infrastructure and a...

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Webinar | Water services on farms – the role of the municipality

Water Rights Webinar Series: Water services on farms - the role of the municipality The uMgungundlovu District Municipality is located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Much of the region is agricultural and home to many labour tenants and farm dwellers who report deplorable living conditions, including poor access to water and sanitation services. Farm owners claim that the provision of water...

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Webinar | Expropriation as a tool: the Marikana experience

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the   Water Rights Webinar Series Expropriation as a tool: the Marikana experience The Marikana informal settlement in Cape Town is home to over 60 000 people.  For years, the residents of Marikana have persistently and innovatively engaged in a diversity of strategies to improve their living conditions....

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