
The price of survival
South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.
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Siyabulela Mama is a member of Zabalaza for Socialism and a member of the Amandla! magazine’s editorial collective and Lily Manoin is a researcher with an interest in privatization.

South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.

The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.

Three activists from the Assembly of the Unemployed talk to us about the challenges facing working-class communities in South Africa.