6th floor Vogas House, 123 Pritchard street (cnr Mooi)
Johannesburg
Tel: (011) 333-8334 / Fax: (011) 333-8335
Postal address: PO BOX 30709, Braamfontein 2017

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APF executive members elected at the AGM 2008

Sunday 16th March 2008 by Ahmed
The Anti Privatisation Forum concluded its Annual General Meeting on 16 March 2008 at the Saratoga Hall in Johannesburg where two new affiliates were welcomed into the organisation and the new office bearers were elected.
The new affiliates are:
Norkem Park Concerned Residents
Kew 6 Concerned Residents
This brings the total number of organisations affiliated to the APF to 27.
The new office bearers of the APF are:
Chairperson -> Mammy Tladi
Deputy Chairperson -> John Appolis (...)

Contact the APF

Friday 1st February 2008 by Ahmed
6th floor Vogas House
123 Pritchard Street (cnr Mooi)
Johannesburg
Tel: (011) 333-8334 Fax: (011) 333-8365
email: khethokuhle AT gmail.com
silumko AT apf.org.za
nicolas.red AT gmail.com

The APF Johannesburg Region Housing March

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
The APF Johannesburg Region Housing March
The APF Joburg Region will be marching on the 02 June 2007 to the Premier Mbazima Shilowa’s Office and to the Housing Department to deliver affiliates or community memorandums regarding the state of housing in Gauteng. The comrades will assemble at the Bayers Naude Library Gardens at 09h00 and commence at 10h30 to the targeted officials. This is after an APF housing March in September 2006 to the housing department and once again there was no (...)

Narrative Report for the South Africa Development Fund

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
ANTI-PRIVATISATION FORUM
6th Floor, Vogas House
123 Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, 2000
(Tel: 27 11 333 - 8334; Fax: 27 11 333-8335)
(Compiled by APF Organiser - Silumko Radebe & APF Treasurer - Dale McKinley)
Introduction
The APF continues its struggle for universal access to basic services. A major and ongoing obstacle to this as identified by the APF is the generalised privatisation (which includes all different forms such as corporatisation, outsourcing, public-private (...)

APF OFFICE BEARERS CONSOLIDATED ORGANISATIONAL REPORT TO THE 2006 AGM

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
1. Introduction
This report consists of 5 sections. Section One deals with the political developments within the APF over the past two years. Section Two deals with the campaigns of the APF and issues dealt with. Section Three focuses on the organizational aspects of the organization. Section Four deals with solidarity initiatives undertaken. The last section, Section Five, focuses on office and staff matters.
SECTION ONE
2. The Political Developments
2004 National Elections and 2006 (...)

APF Narrative Report

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
Prepared by Silumko Radebe - APF Organiser
Are there important contextual (political, economic, social) changes that have/could have an impact on the project?
Political: We have seen division inside the country around the issues of service delivery and in particular within the African National Congress on how the country must tackle corruption, politics of poor service delivery, high crime rate and self-enrichment within the country. The President Thabo Mbeki has blamed Local (...)

Year Plan for 2007

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie

Narrative Report 2004-2005

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
The APF comes to the end of the 3 year Comic Relief funding project a strong organization albeit with some weaknesses. There is no doubt that the APF has made its mark as an organization fighting and campaigning on issues facing the working class and the poor. It has built a modicum of respect for itself among the masses and has forced the powers that be to respect and be wary of it. The last mile of the 3 year project was proverbially the hardest. There have been many hiccups in (...)

Water Privatisation

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
JOHANNESBURG WATER DECLARES WAR ON THE POOR!
Johannesburg Water is attempting to silence and criminalize the voices of those who are resisting its programme - Operation Gcin’amanzi - of installing pre-paid water meters in the Phiri community of SOWETO. Instead of listening to the very community it claims to be helping, Johannesburg Water has brought in the South African Police Services and the hated �Red Ants’ of Wozani Security to crack down on community opposition. Already, 13 community (...)

WE WERE THE ANC

Wednesday 4th October 2006 by Trevor
Many ordinary ANC members cannot face the reality that the ANC has betrayed them, that it no longer serves the working class and the poor, that the ANC is owned and controlled by the bosses class. And that even though they once loved the ANC, even though they once the ANC, today they can no longer love the ANC, they are no longer the ANC. This is important because ANC leaders like to say "You are the ANC, you cannot fight the ANC government, you cannot fight yourself".

ANC cannot deliver because it is serving the capitalists

Monday 18th September 2006 by Trevor
There are many good people in the ANC. But they cannot achieve any good in there because the ANC is committed to serving the capitalists and their system of profits. So when we criticise the ANC government we should help those who are still loyal to the ANC by telling them that the problem is with the ANC’s capitalist policies.

APF Local Government Platform

Thursday 29th June 2006 by Dale
ANTI-PRIVATISATION FORUM
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLATFORM
PREFACE
The APF is an organisation rooted in the struggles of poor communities for human dignity, socio-economic justice and equality. The Local Government Platform is our perspective on the key problems that exist at a local government level and our vision of the changes that need to be made to meet the needs of the people. This Platform is a tool for community mobilising and organising and brings together the views and struggles of (...)

APF concludes second AGM

Monday 24th April 2006 by Dale
Monday 24th April 2006
THE ANTI-PRIVATISATION FORUM AFTER ITS SECOND AGM:
STRENGTHEN UNITY TO DEFEAT CAPITALISM
The Anti Privatisation Forum held its second Annual General Meeting (AGM) from the 24th to the 26th of March 2006 in Johannesburg. Over 200 delegates from all of the APF’s 20 community affiliates from the Johannesburg, the Vaal, East Rand and Tshwane regions, the APF’s two political group affiliates, as well as individual activists and representatives from several APF allies, (...)

About the anti-privatisation forum

Saturday 1st December 2001
The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) was established in July 2000 by activists and organisations involved in two key anti-privatisation struggles: the struggle against iGoli 2002 in Johannesburg, and the struggle against Wits 2001 at Wits University. The APF has affiliates from the unions, communities, students and the left. An anti-privatisation forum has been formed in Cape Town, and representatives from organisations in cities spanning from Durban to Upington to Cape Town have attended APF (...)