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In response to a number of news articles on water scarcity as well as service delivery challenges today, Amnesty International South Africa would like to draw attention to its video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5To5I0025Bc) calling on Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu to take action on the Right To Water For All without delay.
Reacting to the Minister saying the water situation in South Africa is serious, but not to panic, the video features sections of a poem written by Antjie Krog for the 1997 White Paper on a National Water Policy for South Africa:
We want the water
Of this country to flow out into the network
Reaching every individual
Saying here is this water for you
Take it, cherish it as affirming your human dignity
Nourish your humanity
Water gathered and stored since the beginning of time in layers of granite and rock
In the embrace of dams
The ribbons of rivers will one day
Unheralded
Modestly
Easily
Simply flow out to every South African who turns a tap
That is my dream.
Voiced by presenter, blogger and voice artist Chelsea-Summer Lodewyk, the video acts as a reminder to Minister Sisulu of the promise made at the dawn of South Africa’s freedom and the dream of safe, sufficient and reliable water for all.
And that it’s time to panic.
BACKGROUND
The video can be viewed here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5To5I0025Bc).
Amnesty International South Africa’s campaign, Right To Water: Turn On The Tap, calls for the government to recognise that many people in South Africa are denied their constitutional right to water, and to publicly commit to providing equal access to water for everyone – now and always.
Take action here and tell the government to #TurnOnTheTap.
Issued by Amnesty International
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