Were the work of providing water actually done directly by the state, there could be marginally more accountability. The anti-migrant protests may have propelled some migrants to the border but to what end? The electricity protests, service delivery protests, water protests… without follow through, what good have they served? Of course, there aren’t any protests to deliver long-term change because if that was the goal, that would have been the announced aspiration. Had they made a real dent in the idea of outsourcing, we wouldn’t be waiting for the water mafia to deliver today.