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	Update from Johannesburg: It’s all about ‘how’ the RTW is implemented Posted by Mary Galvin on February 16, 2012 Tagged with: Right to Water, South Africa Feb 162012 After five years of struggle, activists from Phiri, Soweto, lost their legal case, Mazibuko and Others v. City of Johannesburg, at the Constitutional Court in October 2009. They had made the case that prepaid meters were unconstitutional and that the six kilolitres of free basic water must be increased and allocations made per […]

	UPDATE: Sembcorp acquires South Africa’s concessions Posted by Mary Galvin on January 25, 2012 Tagged with: Privatization, South Africa Jan 252012 Keeping an eye on a growing private sector footprint: Sembcorp acquires South Africa’s concessions and becomes one of the big five water and sanitation providers in Asia Private sector acquisitions of water concessions in developing countries occur quietly through stock exchanges and negotiations amongst firms. Not only does this mean that the nature of […]

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