In the News

MAY

Morales Nationalizes Bolivian Electricity , Callan Hetterrick, May 3, 2010

JANUARY

Europe: Privatised Services Back in Public Hands, Julio Godoy, January 28, 2010

After the wave of de-privatisation of water services facilities that started across the world two years ago,  municipalities in Europe are now buying back the electricity utilities they sold to private investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

On the Commons Interview with Hillary Wainwright, David Bollier, January 18, 2010

Hillary Wainwrights talks about the need to transform societal institutions to be in support of the commons and democratic participation. “The institutions that are supposed to reproduce daily life and incapable of acting on behalf of the people any more,” she says, “so we need to produce our own institutional alternatives based on micro-experiments and universal values.”

DECEMBER

Bolivia's Economic Success, Sara Kozameh, December 16, 2009 

Evo Morales's bold bet against privatization pays off. By regaining public ownership of natural resources and focusing on social programs, the Morales administration has achieved record growth despite the recession.

Newspaper Articles from Phases I and II

• The Cholera Aftermath, Mail and Guardian, July 2006
• Improvements but still challenges regarding cholera, study finds,  BuaNews , 13 July 2006.
• Cholera still a threat to KZN communities, SAPA, 13 July 2006.
• Cholera continues to plague poor areas: study, The Independent, 12 July 2006.
• Only the tip of the tap, Mail & Guardian , 23 September 2005.
• Water quality a national crisis, Mail & Guardian , 23 September 2005.
• No answers from Mosselbay officials, IMC-CT , 11 March 2005.
• Boreholes bleed our country of a resource that belongs to all, Cape Times , 11 January 2005.
• City's electricity system in for a shock, Cape Argus , 11 January 2005. 
• Keeping the taps open, Mail&Guardian, 25 June 2004.
• The 'new left' has provided space for different groups affected by neo-liberalism, Mail&Guardian, 25 June 2004.
• Fact, fiction and the new left, Mail&Guardian, 11 June 2004.
• Struggling to provide safe drinking water to the poor, CBC, 31 March 2004.
• Democracy or Development: Which Comes First?, International Development and Environment Article Service, 9 February 2004.
• Letter re: Johannesburg Water advertisement,  Mail & Guardian,  12-18 September 2003.
• Working class 'undermined',  Mail & Guardian, 22 August 2003.
• Kasrils should welcome a free and fair debate,  Sunday Independent, 06 July 2003.
• Interview with Trevor Ngwane: Sparks in the township, New Left Review, July-August 2003.
• Can there be a guaranteed free minimum?, Hydroplus, July/August 2003.
• South Africa heated debate on water cut off statistics Source Weekly July 2003
• Letter to the editor: Researchers speak out at their peril, Sunday Independent, 29 June 2003.
• From myth to reality in the great water debate, Sunday Independent, 29 June 2003.
• Excerpt from One No, Many Yeses, The Ecologist, 22 June 2003.
• Letter to the editor: Putting pipes in the ground just first step, Sunday Independent, 22 June 2003.
• Shooting the messenger, Sunday Independent, 22 June 2003.
• Attack the problem not the data, Sunday Independent, 15 June 2003.
• Report on water cut-off a case of sour grapes among US populists, Sunday Independent, 8 June 2003.
• Water tap often shut to South Africa poor, New York Times, 29 May 2003.
• More carrot, less stick, Mail & Guardian, 26 May 2003.
• Whose hand on the tap? Water privatization in South Africa, CBC Radio, 9 February 2003.
• Two Trevors go to the Forums: Soweto embraced by Brazil -- Pretoria shunned in Switzerland, The Sowetan, 7 February 2003.
• Cholera and the age of the water barons, The Center for Public Integrity, 3 February 2003.
• South Africa's driest season, Mother Jones Magazine, December 2002.
• Give us facts, not rhetoric, Mail & Guardian, 18 October 2002.