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Makanda and the future of service delivery protests in SA

Makanda and the future of service delivery protests in SA
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[OP-ED] SERI s Alana Potter writes about the Kgetlengrivier judgment and its implications for water services provision and self-supply (1 March 2021)

In an interim order, Judge Festus Gura sentenced the Kgetlengrivier s municipal manager to 90 days imprisonment, suspended, and agreed to allow the residents’ association, Kgetlengrivier Concerned Citizens, to take control of the waterworks, paid for by local and provincial government. The judge also gave the municipality until 1 March 2021 to demonstrate why the interim order should not be made final. In the op-ed, Potter draws on SERI s recently published case study on how the Harrismith Water Heroes in Maluti-a-Phofung are claiming their community s water rights by fixing their town’s water infrastructure, largely at their own cost. Potter argues that as innovative as self-provision undoubtedly is, water is a public good and it is profoundly risky for water services providers to operate without public oversight. She writes that while the agreement reached in the Kgetlengrivier case might present a short-term solution to rehabilitate and run water services in small rural t

[ADVOCACY] SERI supports the call for the extension and increase of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant (4 February 2021)

[ADVOCACY] SERI supports the call for the extension and increase of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant (4 February 2021). On 28 January 2021, SERI’s Alana Potter joined a press conference for the #PayTheGrants Campaign calling for the extension and increase of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grants to at least R585-00 in line with the food poverty line. The press conference was hosted by Black Sash, C19 People’s Coalition Cash Transfers Working Group and the Institute of Economic Justice (IEJ). Potter spoke alongside affected grant claimants, Zwelinzima Vavi, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, and social justice activists. The #PayTheGrants Campaign joint statement calls for:

#PayTheGrants: Activists call for the Social Relief of

The #PayTheGrants campaign for the extension and increase of the Social Relief of Distress grant has been signed by more than 180 civil society organisations and makes the following demands: Extension and increase of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD) to at least the food poverty line of R585 per person per month; Unduly harsh and narrow criteria for accessing the grant to be reassessed; Inclusion of caregivers for the SRD grant regardless of whether they are receiving a child support grant on behalf of their children; and Urgent progress towards implementation of the long overdue Basic Income Guarantee (grant).

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