Such jobs trap a layer of the working class in working poverty and undermine the conditions of organised workers. To see such developments as empowerment or as evidence of consultation is simply ludicrous. Ordinary working and poor people will be excluded from such ownership, and, further, such ownership will not any way ameliorate the overall negative effects of privatisation. What it will do is fiddle with the composition of the rich who will make profit from such restructured entities at the cost of social development, jobs and working conditions. We reaffirm instead that it is government's duty to provide infrastructure and basic services to the broad working class and poor in order to promote social equality and empowerment.
Privatisation can never benefit ordinary people.
That is why the APF will fight to the last to halt this process. We call on all unions and community structures affected by privatisation to join us in the struggle against privatisation. Only popular struggles by the broad working class can stop privatisation. Issued by the Johannesburg Anti-Privatisation Forum.