COSATU and South African Municipal Workers Union denounce call for the privatization of Pikitup

COSATU, along with the South African Municipal Workers Union, denounces DA Gauteng’s call for the privatization of Pikitup, the official integrated waste management service provider to Johannesburg. “The privatization of Pikitup will be tantamount to government outsourcing its developmental mandate to the private sector. Privatization will detrimentally affect the socio-economic interests of the poor, which includes workers and the working class in general. It will lead to decreased and inferior quality services for the poor, since they cannot afford to pay for the services provided by or through private interests. It will lead to higher prices for the provision of basic services, which will adversely affect the poor. It will limit the extension of basic social and municipal services to the poor.”