A.7.b. South Africa: Resistance to Privatization

Volume Two -> A. Campaigns for Social and Economic Justice -> A.7. Opposing IMF Policies and Privatization -> A.7.b. South Africa: Resistance to Privatization

Post-apartheid South Africa has seen widespread resistance to privatization, which has also been well documented, so these struggles are listed in a separate subsection.

Barchiesi, Franco Transnational Capital, Urban Globalisation and Cross-Border Solidarity: The Case of the South African Municipal Workers, In Peter Waterman, Jane Wills, Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalism, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 , pp. 312 , pp. 80-102

Discusses problems faced by union in new global context of neoliberal economic dominance and its resistance to water privatization.

Desai, Ashwin We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa, New York, Monthly Review Press, 2002 , pp. 153

On struggles against neoliberal policies and privatization in the townships, strikes, and the Durban Social Forum.

Mayekiso, Mzwanele Township Politics: Civic Struggles in the New South Africa, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1996 , pp. 288

McKinley, Dale Lessons of Struggle: The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Privatisation Forum, , 08/02/2012 pp. smaller than 0

Critical analysis of failings of Forum, which was set up in 2000 and active for 10 years, but also noting its positive role as voice for marginalised and promoter of grass roots activism.

Ngwane, Trevor Sparks in the township, Vol. II, issue 22 (July/Aug), 2003 , pp. 37-56

Websites recommended

Community Resistance to Energy Privatization in South Africa Edinburgh and Oakland CA A.K. Press, 2010
Lessons of Struggle: The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1197) , 2012

Critical analysis of failings of Forum, which was set up in 2000 and active for 10 years, but also noting its positive role as voice for marginalised and promoter of grass roots activism.

Transnational Capital, Urban Globalisation and Cross-Border Solidarity: The Case of the South African Municipal Workers Oxford Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Discusses problems faced by union in new global context of neoliberal economic dominance and its resistance to water privatization.

We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa New York Monthly Review Press, 2002

On struggles against neoliberal policies and privatization in the townships, strikes, and the Durban Social Forum.