Speaker 1: On this Dam Working Class History the sixth of January,
Speaker 1: and on the sixth of January two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: local residents in Bayview in Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa successfully
Speaker 1: fought off a local water disconnection team. This was especially
Speaker 1: courageous given that a council security team had previously murdered
Speaker 1: a teenage boy, Marcel King, elsewhere in the city after
Speaker 1: he attempted to help his mother during a disconnection of
Speaker 1: her electricity. The council, run by the African National Congress ANC,
Speaker 1: said they would be back with greater force. Since the
Speaker 1: ANC were elected in nineteen ninety four, they pursued a
Speaker 1: neoliberal agenda of privatization and disconnected the water supply to
Speaker 1: over one million homes, while thousands of people continued to
Speaker 1: die each year from diarrhea, mostly caused by unsafe water.
Speaker 1: The sources, maps, and all of our anniversaries each day.
Speaker 1: Check out the on this Day section of our stories
Speaker 1: at at stories stopworkingclasshistory dot com, and if you value
Speaker 1: our work, support us at Patreon dot com slash working
Speaker 1: class History. Links in the show notes. The music by
Speaker 1: a Decado ad See you Tomorrow,