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| Call Number: |
B3.1.1 |
| Identifier: |
AL3290_B3.1.1 |
| Title: |
Pamphlet for Kensington 87 |
| Date: |
April 2002 |
| Subject: |
Anti-Privatisation Forum - APF;
Electricity;
Kensington 87;
Prepaid meters - PPM;
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee - SECC; |
| Description: |
The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC) was one of the founder community member organisations of the APF. Its success in mobilising residents of Soweto in opposition to the privatisation of electricity through ‘Operation Khanyisa’ (‘Operation Turn On’) – which directly reconnected residents who had been cut off and by-passed pre-paid meters – and the resultant publicity was a key component of the APF’s early campaigns/struggles and organisational visibility. In an action that eventually received national and global attention, SECC/APF members descended on the house of the Johannesburg Mayor and proceeded to cut off his electricity. The 87 activists subsequently arrested and charged then had to endure over a year of court proceedings (the court eventually finding them not guilty on all charges) – this pamphlet speaks to that battle. In ensuing years, the SECC and APF continued the battle around electricity with particular focus on prepaid meters (see B3.1.2) – a battle that spread to, and become popularised in, most all poor communities in Gauteng and indeed, across South Africa.
Included in SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Transition's Child: The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF)' |
| Creator: |
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC); Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) |
| Type: |
Pamphlet |
| Format: |
Access copy - pdf
Preservation copy - pdf |
| Source: |
SAHA collection AL3290 |
| Language: |
English |
| Coverage: |
South Africa |
| Rights: |
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC); Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) |
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