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SAFTU REJECTS CREEPING PRIVATISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S RAIL SYSTEM | SA News


The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes with deep concern the announcement by Transport Minister Barbara Creecy inviting private partners to invest in South Africa’s passenger rail system. While the government frames this as a “modernisation” drive, it is in fact another step in the privatisation of public transport under the Operation Vulindlela agenda, the same neoliberal programme driving the concessioning of ports, harbours, electricity generation, and water infrastructure.

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