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00:01We can't afford to be without water.
00:06But they want the poor people to pay for the crisis
00:09that we are not responsible for.
00:11Forgive our sins.
00:13Bring rain in the land.
00:16Plenty of rain!
00:20Government has no idea.
00:30My fellow Capetownians, the purpose we have chosen to fulfill
00:37is to turn Cape Town into a beacon of hope.
00:43In Cape Town, one of those difficult things
00:45is the state of our sanitation infrastructure.
00:48The investment in which has not kept up
00:50with the growth in the population of our city,
00:52you've got to fix it.
00:53And that requires revenue.
00:55There's no two ways about it.
00:56Cheers.
01:01What you've got is a failure of management system.
01:04What? You keep blaming the poor people.
01:07You dispute the fact that there's any other contributing factor
01:09other than the sewage works.
01:13But that's just not true. I'm sorry.
01:15Part of the problem is that we have given
01:17the human right to water the same standing
01:20as the corporate right to water.
01:22The problem is that we don't have to do it.
01:25We don't have to do it.
01:27We are all using water on basic needs.
01:40I didn't see any one of you list a swimming pool.
01:44It's really desperately important
01:46that you don't let go of your drought-proof farmland.
01:48In the time of climate change,
01:50that's exactly what you need to preserve.
01:52I was removed from the area under apartheid.
01:56And what we're facing now is that
01:58I'm also going to be removed from this area again as an adult.
02:02I have become disillusioned.
02:05But I think sometimes they rely on activists getting tired,
02:09giving up and life happening and moving on to other things
02:12and nobody holds them accountable.
02:14That is not the end of it.
02:17That is only the beginning.
02:19Yes!
02:20Water is a human right!
02:22Yes!
02:23And we are all human beings!
02:24Yes!
02:25We are here because we are saying no!
02:28No more!
02:30Enough is enough!
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