| JOHANNESBURG: HUMAN RIGHTS | Feb 10 2003 |
| Anti-Privatisation Activist Murdered, Attacks Continue | |
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| Early in the morning of February 8 in Orange Farm (an informal settlement of 1.5 million people south of Johannesburg), 61 year-old Anti-Privatisation Forum APF) and Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee (OWCC)activist Emily Nengolo, was shot dead in her home by two unknown assailants in what appears to be a politically motivated attack. Over the last year, the OWCC has been actively and effectively involved in resisting water and electricity cut-offs and evictions in their community as well as building community organisation and struggle for meaningful socio-economic development in response to the neoliberal policies of the South African government. | |
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