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(Medium file - 12MB) 5mins 30 secs. Authorship: Coalition Against Water Privatisation, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Friction Films, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.Please spread far and wide, show in your community, blog, link to your website and social networks. The films are updated as events unfold in South Africa. There are 10 minute, 2 minute and 5 minute edits, all showing on frictionfilms.blip.tv. Downloads available. Many thanks. Film Release: Amanzi Ngawethu (Water is Ours)Six year legal battle for water rights in South Africa reaches Constitutional Court.Over the 2nd & 3rd of September 2009, the Constitutional Court of South Africa heard the final appeal in a case brought by five Soweto residents challenging prepaid water meters and insufficient free basic water. The Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution guarantees right of access to sufficient water.However, poor communities in Johannesburg's townships do not have sufficient water and do not receive the same water service as the richer suburbs. This six year legal battle is working to secure constitutional rights for all - water is a right not a privilege!Diverse forces have come together - from community mobilisation to self-organised water services to legal action - in powerful struggles which have won an historic High Court victory and empowered people to remove prepaid water meters and reconnect to free water, despite threats of criminalisation. In this spirit, Amanzi Ngawethu (Water is Ours) brings together protest songs, photos and video from people and organisations involved in the struggle and working in solidarity.As we wait for the court's decision, the residents of Phiri along with their legal team, supporters & millions of poor people in South Africa & across the world are watching and listening. Mobilising carries on in affected communities, popularising the High Court judgement, the legal process and people´s rights. The Constitucional Court´s decision is expected in the coming weeks, but could take months. Whatever the outcome of this legal case, the struggle to ensure accessible, adequate & affordable water for all will continue.Please spread this film far and wide and check the weblinks as events unfold... Thank you.View the films here: frictionfilms.blip.tvRSS/itunes: frictionfilms.blip.tv/rss/itunesInfo and news:Coalition Against Water Privatisation (CAWP) Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) www.apf.org.zaCentre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) www.law.wits.ac.za/calsEmail: frictionfilms@riseup.net

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