It wants to sell off part of SAA, Telkom and Airports Company, and all of Autonet, Sun Air and Transkei Airways. Mass actions were organised in the postal and public transport sectors. This strike was called off at the last minute when the government agreed to halt its privatisation plans and enter into negotiations with the unions over economic restructuring. We have had privatisation in South Africa since the 1980s. Nowhere in the world has privatisation created jobs.
Privatisation means job losses.
It will put us and our families on the streets. The government says that there must be some privatisation of services. It won't deliver services to people who cannot afford to pay charges. And business will erode the quality of the few services we do have so it can make more money. But only a tiny elite of Black businessman and politicians have money to buy shares.