• Water privatisation in South Africa is a contentious issue, given the history of denial of access to water and persisting poverty. Water privatisation...
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    Water supply and sanitation in South Africa is characterised by both achievements and challenges. After the end of Apartheid South Africa's newly elected...
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    Bucharest Water privatization in Chile Water privatization in Colombia Water privatization in Cuba Water privatization in Ecuador Water privatisation in England...
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    economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. The economy...
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    South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months...
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    released by UNICEF in 2007. Empower Playgrounds Blood: Water Mission Water privatisation in South Africa Water scarcity in Africa Chambers, Andrew (2009-11-24)...
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  • South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. It is often argued that...
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  • opposition to privatisation schemes, and was particularly active in opposing the privatisation of a water treatment plant in Johannesburg. In 2002, it led...
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    The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid...
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  • Beginning in 1917, steam locomotives, which consume large amounts of fuel (wood, coal, and later oil) and even more water, were gradually retired and...
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    South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika). The Palgrave Commission by the British governor in Cape Town determined that only the natural deep-water harbour...
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    and Won't Be Back "Bolivia's water wars coming to end under Morales". Mercury News. February 26, 2006. "Water privatisation: ask the experts". BBC News...
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    South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa...
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  • Water privatisation in Ghana has been discussed since the early 1990s as a reaction to poor service quality and low efficiency of the existing urban water...
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    and construction, growth in 2002 was 5.8%, despite anemic global growth. The restructuring of chaebols, bank privatisation, and the creation of a more...
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  • (1989) Water companies – see main article Water privatisation in England and Wales Anglian Water (1989) North West Water (1989) Northumbrian Water (1989)...
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    failures of the African National Congress (ANC) government post-apartheid. The ZACF was involved in the campaigns of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) and...
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    Bombardier Electrostar (category Electric multiple units of South Africa)
    Litchurch Lane Works in England between 1999 and 2017. It has become the most common new EMU type in the United Kingdom since the privatisation of British Rail...
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  • also imports some water from the Molatedi Dam in South Africa. The reservoirs contain 90% of total capacity in Botswana. More water is lost from the reservoirs...
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    and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros,...
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    sandy banks and islands. Continuing south-west it enters the Kafue National Park, second largest national park in Africa, where it receives its two largest...
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    2013. Water 21, Magazine of the International Water Association, April 2008, p. 9 "Saudi fires starting gun for SWCC privatisation". Global Water Intelligence...
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    development of sensitive habitats. In the Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic eras, South America and Africa were connected in a landmass called Gondwana, as part...
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    Margaret Thatcher (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    liberty, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Her popularity in her first years in office waned...
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    privatised in a process overseen by the IMF and the World Bank. This process was completed in 2000. Privatisation and a subsequent surge in world copper...
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    Kenya (redirect from Kenya-Africa)
    under AGOA. Privatisation of state corporations like the defunct Kenya Post and Telecommunications Company, which resulted in East Africa's most profitable...
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    the privatisation of some government services. An Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was created. Greiner called a snap election in 1991...
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    costs had in fact fallen 35% by 2012.[citation needed] South Australia has the highest retail price for electricity in the country. Privatisation led to...
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    Niger (redirect from Ethnic groups in Niger)
    landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina...
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  • Richard Pithouse, All Africa, April 2011 Activist killed by South African police at demonstration against water privatisation Archived 19 June 2011 at...
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