MSP Publications
BOOKS
- Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid
- World City Syndrome: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town
- The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa
- Dumping on women: Gender and privatisation of waste management
- Environmental Justice in South Africa
- Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Greg Ruiters (2007) “New faces of privatization: from comrades to customers” in Patrick Bond, Herman Chitonga and Arnt Hopfman (eds.), The Accumulation of capital in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Development Studies.
- David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters (2006) Rethinking Privatization Towards a Critical Theoretical Perspective in Daniel Chavez (ed ), Beyond the Market: The future of public services. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp 9-20.
- Greg Ruiters (2006) Public services: transformation or stasis? in Daniel Chavez (ed), Beyond the Market: The future of public services. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp 127-135.
- Greg Ruiters (2006)“Social Control and Social welfare under Neoliberalism in South Africa. Contradictions in Free Basic Water” in Cities in Contemporary Africa, Murray. M and Meyers. G (eds.) Palgrave MacMillan. New York.
- Greg Ruiters and Laila Smith, “The public/private conundrum of urban water politics: a view from South Africa” in Nik Heynen, Swyndedouw, E (ed), In the Nature of Cities, Urban Political Ecology, New York: Routledge, 2006
- Karen Cocq, Greg Ruiters, Patrick Bond and David McDonald, “Water commodification and the threat to health” Alternative World Health Report, Global Health Watch, London. Zed Press, 2005.
- Greg Ruiters “Water Privatization and the struggle for basic services in South Africa,” in Afriche e oriente, Vol. 3-4, (2003).
- Greg Ruiters, “Water Commodity” in Char Miller (ed.), History in Dispute, 7: Water and the Environment since 1945: Global Perspectives, Gale Publishing. Chicago, (2001).
- Greg Ruiters, “Drought and Liquidity: Water shortages and Surpluses in Post Apartheid South Africa” in Y Muthien, M Khosa and A Zegeya (eds.) Democracy and Governance Review, Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council and Ashgate Press, (2001, with Patrick Bond).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Susan Pronk Water and Sanitation Utilities in the Global South: Re-Centering the Debate on "Efficiency", Review of Radical Polical Economics 42(2), 2010
- Karen Cocq and David A McDonald Minding the Undertow: Assessing Water "Privatization" in Cuba, Antipode 42(1), 2010
- Gemma Boag and David A McDonald A Critical Review of Public-Public Partnerships in Water Services, Water Alternatives, 3(1), February 2010
- Greg Ruiters, “Contradictions in municipal services in contemporary South Africa: disciplinary commodification and self-disconnections”, Critical Social Policy, 27(4), November 2007
- David A McDonald and L Smith, Privatising Cape Town: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in the Mother City, Urban Studies, 41(8), July 2004.
- Greg Ruiters “Hard to swallow, recent developments in municipal services and conditions of access”, in Alternatives, Vol. 2 (8) April 2004
- Melanie Samson, SA's Vulnerable Out on the Streets, SA Labour Bulletin, 28(1) 2004
- Greg Ruiters, “Water privatization in South Africa” ESR Review, Vol. 4, No 4, November 2003
- Greg Ruiters, “Local government confronts the new ungovernability” Debate, 9 August. pp 13-17. (2003)
- David A. McDonald, No Money No Service: South African's poorest citizens lose out under attempts to recover service costs for water and power, Alternatives, 28(2), 2002
- Alexander J Loftus and David A McDonald, Of Liquid Dreams: A Political Ecology of Water Privatization in Buenos Aires, Environment and Urbanization, 13(2), October 2001
- John Pape, A Public Sector Alternative: SAMWU's Efforts, SA Labour Bulletin 25(4), August 2001
- Greg Rutiers, “After basic needs, social justice and water politics” in Debate, 5, 2001, pp 16-23
- Greg Rutiers, “Water Transnationals pull the strings” in Land and Rural Digest Nov/Dec 2000 No 15, pp 40-41
BRIEFING NOTES
OCCASIONAL PAPERS
- No 1: Poised to Succeed or Set Up to Fail A Case Study of South Africa First Public Public Partnership
- No 2: Lessons from Argentina
- No 3: The Commercialization of Waste Management in South Africa
- No 4: The Electricity Crisis in Soweto
- No 5: Block Tariffs or Blocked Access? The Greater Hermanus Water Conservation Programme.
- No 6: Local Economic Development Debates in South Africa
- No 7: Privatizing Cape Town: Service Delivery and Policy Reform Since 1996
- No 8: Who Cares for Health Care Workers: The State of Occupational Health and Safety in Municipal Health Clinics in South Africa.
- No 9: Public-Public Partnerships in Health and Essential Services
- No 10: Still Paying the Price: Revisiting the Cholera Epidemic of 2000-2001 in South Africa
- No 11: The GATs and South Africa's National Health Act: A Cautionary Tale
- No 12: How Depressing: Poverty, Mental Health and Municipal Services in South Africa
- No 13: The Problem of Handwashing and Paying for Water in South Africa
- No 14: Marketization of Municipal Services, Daily Life and HIV in South Africa
- No 15: Public is as Private Does: The Confused Case of Rand Water in South Africa
BACKGROUND PAPERS
- David McDonald, Municipal Bureaucrats and Environmental Policy in Cape Town
- Greg Ruiters and Patrick Bond, Contradictons in Municipal Transformation from Apartheid to Democracy: The Battle Over Local Water Privatization in South Africa
- David Letsie and Patrick Bond, Debating Supply and Demand Characteristics of Bulk Infrastructure: Lesotho-Johannesburg Water Transfer
- Patrick Bond, Economic Growth, Ecological Modernization or Environmental Justice? Conflicting Discourses in South Africa Today
- Patrick Bond and Robyn Stein, Environmental and Water Management Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- David McDonald, Ideology and Urban Ecology in the New South Africa
- David McDonald, Immigration and Homelessness in the New South Africa
- Ben Cashdan, Local Government and Poverty in South Africa
- Laila Smith, The Urban Political Ecology of Water in Cape Town, South Africa
- Stephen Hosking and Patrick Bond, Infrastructure for Spatial Development Initiatives or for Basic Needs? Port Elizabeth's Prioritisation of the Coega Port/IDZ over Municipal Services
- Patrick Bond, George Dor and Greg Ruiters, Transformation in Infrastructure Policy from Apartheid to Democracy
SPECIAL REPORTS
- Organizing in the Informal Economy: Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Industry in South Africa - A Special Report for the International Labour Office (ILO), 2004
- ESR Review, 03 November 2003
- Joint Submission by Cosatu and Samwu on the Draft White Paper on Water Services, 29 February 2003
- Commodification of Public Goods: Critique and Alternatives, February 2003
- The Bell Tolls for Thee: Cost Recovery, Cutoffs and the Affordability of Municipal Services in South Africa, March 2002
- Restructuring, human rights and water access to vulnerable groups, December 2001
- Cities, social movements and scale-politics in an era of 'gloabalisation', September 2001
- A public sector alternative: SAMWU's efforts, August 2001
- Report-back on the "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver, July 2001
- Governance and service delivery in Eastern and Southern Africa: Issues for debate, directions for research, September 2000.
- Comments on the Unicity Commission's Discussion Document, September 2000.
- Survey of Municipal Workers in The Cape Metropolitan Area, May 2000.