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.
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A.7.b. South Africa: Resistance to Privatization
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Barchiesi, Franco, Transnational Capital, Urban Globalisation and Cross-Border Solidarity: The Case of the South African Municipal Workers, In , Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalism Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, , 2001, pp. 80-102
Discusses problems faced by union in new global context of neoliberal economic dominance and its resistance to water privatization.
Bond, Patrick ; Ngwane, Trevor, Community Resistance to Energy Privatization in South Africa, In Abramsky, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in Transition to a Post-Petrol World (A.7.a. Resistance to Energy and Water Privatization), Edinburgh and Oakland CA, A.K. Press,
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 T., Lessons of Struggle: The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Privatisation Forum, South African Civil Society Information Service, 08/02/2012,
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.
Ngwane, Trevor, Sparks in the township, New Left Review, Vol. II, issue 22 (July/Aug), 2003, pp. 37-56
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