Jane Barrett – The Mail & Guardian

/ 8 June 2004

There’s life in the beast yet

There has been much huffing and puffing about a government policy reversal on privatisation in the past two or three weeks. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union believes there has been a shift, but that it has less dramatic and more gradual than many commentators believe.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 1 January 2002

Not a hollow victory

In his piece about labour’s role in the government’s decision not to privatise large portions of Spoornet ("A hollow victory?", May 31), Reg Rumney displays a puzzling ignorance of the details of the agreement reached. Puzzling, because, as with other serious economic journalists, Rumney was fully briefed at the time of the announcement in February.

By Pholokgolo Ramothwala