ANTI-POOR OP-ED: Free basic water in Cape Town is not free and not affordable

Residents facing water injustices demand that the City of Cape Town account for, and change, its anti-poor, racist and sexist free basic water policy practices. The dismissive response to Black people from poor communities who engage the…

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