On this Dam Working Class History the sixth of January, and on the sixth of January two thousand and five, local residents in Bayview in Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa successfully fought off a local water disconnection team. This was especially courageous given that a council security team had previously murdered a teenage boy, Marcel King, elsewhere in the city after he attempted to help his mother during a disconnection of
her electricity. The council, run by the African National Congress ANC, said they would be back with greater force. Since the ANC were elected in nineteen ninety four, they pursued a neoliberal agenda of privatization and disconnected the water supply to over one million homes, while thousands of people continued to die each year from diarrhea, mostly caused by unsafe water. The sources, maps, and all of our anniversaries each day.
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