{"id":5177,"date":"2020-04-16T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:57:02","slug":"public-statement-and-press-release-water-stressed-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/public-statement-and-press-release-water-stressed-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Statement and Press Release: Water-stressed communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: President Ramaphosa<\/p>\n<p>Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation<\/p>\n<p>Disaster Management Command Structure<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Regarding: WatersStressed Communities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We commend the South African government for its decisive response to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC) came into existence after a Right to Food Conference in November 2014. Since then we have campaigned against food injustices and inequalities in the context of the worst drought in the history of the country. We have consistently built solidarities with drought affected communities. The Disaster Management Act was not triggered to respond to the drought and generally, we did not have decisive leadership from government. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Press-Statement_Water-stressed-communities_16Apr2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: President Ramaphosa Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Disaster Management Command Structure Regarding: WatersStressed Communities We commend the South African government for its decisive response to Covid-19. The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC) came into existence after a Right to Food Conference in November 2014. Since then we have campaigned&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/public-statement-and-press-release-water-stressed-communities\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}