BOSA wants water shedding to be declared unconstitutional

BOSA members seen with placards calling for an end to water shedding.

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Build One South Africa (BOSA) has launched a litigation initiative to declare water shedding unconstitutional, in commemoration of Human Rights Day.

The party will take this legal fight to the Constitutional Court.

BOSA Deputy President Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster says that the party will seek an interdict to ensure that essential services such as police stations, healthcare facilities and schools are exempt from water shedding.

Hlazo-Webster was speaking outside the Malvern Clinic in Johannesburg on Thursday. The area has been plagued by water issues.

“It cannot continue, there can be no water shedding in this country. This is our argument and this is our declaration and we will do it in the court of law. We are going to tell them that when you cut off water to hospitals and schools you threaten lives, you threaten health, you threaten the education of our children and that there are alternative solutions that must be made.”

BOSA will seek an interdict preventing water-shedding in essential institutions and a mandatory order compelling municipalities and the Department of Water and Sanitation to implement immediate remedial measures to restore reliable water supply.#BuildOneSA #WaterCrisis… pic.twitter.com/J3gJ6irAjO

— BOSA (@BuildOneSA) March 20, 2025