Last week in South Africa, the ANC's largest privatisation -- a 20% share in South African Airways bought a couple of years ago by SwissAir (bankrupt after 9/11) -- was renationalised. If it wasn't so unwieldy, we'd be talking lots more about "remunicipalisation" of the many screwed-up water, rubbish and electricity privatisations that have been foolishly sold off by the late-apartheid and ANC regimes... (http://www.queensu.ca/msp )
But aside from internal capitalist contradictions and academic critiques, class struggle continues. As that Washington Post article demonstrated, the masses in the streets of Soweto are doing a very very good job at making the parastatal service suppliers as unattractive as possible for future privatisers. I gather they featured on CNN last week too, as well as being the subject of a national SA Broadcasting Corporation special investigation the week before.