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  • 5/14/2025
In 2018, Cape Town narrowly averted completely running out of drinking water. In a country sitting 29th on the list of w | dG1fWVJ1VDFSbjJtYU0
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00:01Our water is becoming scarce.
00:06But they want the poor people to pay for the crisis that we are not responsible for.
00:11Our children is thirsty!
00:13We don't shower, we don't wash because we can't!
00:17We must just be happy!
00:20Government has no idea.
00:30My fellow Capetownians, the purpose we have chosen to fulfill is to turn Cape Town into a beacon of hope.
00:43In Cape Town, one of those difficult things is the state of our sanitation infrastructure.
00:48The investment in which has not kept up with the growth in the population of our city.
00:52You've got to fix it, and that requires revenue.
00:55There's no two ways about it.
00:56Cheers!
01:00What you've got is a failure of management systems, and you keep planning the poor people.
01:07You dispute the fact that there's any other contributing factor other than the sewerage works?
01:11Sorry.
01:13But that's just not true. I'm sorry, but...
01:15The current water policy is perpetuating water apartheid.
01:19It's racist. It's structurally racist.
01:22The problem is that the problem is that the problem is that the problem is that the problem is.
01:27We are all using water on basic needs.
01:40I didn't see any one of you list a swimming pool.
01:44Many of us are sitting at home wondering what to do about climate change.
01:47And one of the best things you can do is defend your local farmlands, but nobody thinks about it until it's gone.
01:53They make me really angry.
01:57They announced a reason that's going to destroy our area.
02:00I have become disillusioned, but I think sometimes they rely on activists getting tired, giving up and life happening and moving on to other things, and nobody holds them accountable.
02:14That is not the end of it.
02:17That is only the beginning.
02:19Yes!
02:20Water is a human right!
02:22Yes!
02:23And we are all human beings!
02:24Yes!
02:25We are here because we are saying no!
02:27No more!
02:29Enough is enough!
02:31Take that!
02:32Meet us!
02:33Help!
02:34Use this!
02:35Help!
02:36Help!
02:37Help!
02:38Help!
02:39To see that you drag her in and you!
02:40Don't do anything.
02:44Help!
02:45Help!
02:46Help!
02:47Help!
02:49Help!
02:50Help!
02:52Help!
02:54Help!
02:55Get to be found!
02:56Help!
02:57Help!
02:58Help!
02:59Help!

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