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Privatisation, participation and protest in the restructuring of municipal services

Privatisation, participation and protest in the restructuring of municipal services PRIVATISATION, PARTICIPATION AND PROTEST IN THE RESTRUCTURING OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES Grounds for Opposing World Bank Promotion of 'Public-Private Partnerships' PATRICK BOND THE WORLD BANK AND SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL SERVICES The several dozen trade unionists gathered in Port EliTabeth City Hall one sleepy humid Saturday in February 1998 at a workshop on participation in 'PPPs' (public-private partnerships), were stunned from the outset. A Depa~Lment of Constitutional Development (DCD) deputy director-general began by blaming union opposition to privatisation for the 'failure of the RDP'. Following up, the Port Elizabeth city treasurer revealed in a slide-show that, unbeknownst to these leaders of the Eastern Cape region of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), World Bank staff had visited Port F.ligabeth roughly eighteen months earlier (September 1996) to offer counsel on expanding the city's water system. The treasurer, inherited from the previous government, had joined the Bank in a week-long model-building exercise that focused entirely on one option: increasing capital expenditure by privatising the city's water works. Various claims about likely efficiency enhancements were made, some of which - such as the feasible reduction of staff from 6,5 to 3,5 per 1 000 water consumers, and a 1,2 per cent interest http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Privatisation, participation and protest in the restructuring of municipal services

Urban Forum , Volume 9 (1) – Feb 28, 2009

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Springer SBM
Subject
Social Sciences, general; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology
ISSN
1015-3802
eISSN
1874-6330
DOI
10.1007/BF03033129
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Abstract

PRIVATISATION, PARTICIPATION AND PROTEST IN THE RESTRUCTURING OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES Grounds for Opposing World Bank Promotion of 'Public-Private Partnerships' PATRICK BOND THE WORLD BANK AND SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL SERVICES The several dozen trade unionists gathered in Port EliTabeth City Hall one sleepy humid Saturday in February 1998 at a workshop on participation in 'PPPs' (public-private partnerships), were stunned from the outset. A Depa~Lment of Constitutional Development (DCD) deputy director-general began by blaming union opposition to privatisation for the 'failure of the RDP'. Following up, the Port Elizabeth city treasurer revealed in a slide-show that, unbeknownst to these leaders of the Eastern Cape region of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), World Bank staff had visited Port F.ligabeth roughly eighteen months earlier (September 1996) to offer counsel on expanding the city's water system. The treasurer, inherited from the previous government, had joined the Bank in a week-long model-building exercise that focused entirely on one option: increasing capital expenditure by privatising the city's water works. Various claims about likely efficiency enhancements were made, some of which - such as the feasible reduction of staff from 6,5 to 3,5 per 1 000 water consumers, and a 1,2 per cent interest

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