Taking on board the World Bank’s advice to introduce a "credible threat of cutting service" the Johannesburg City Council has been cutting off citizens who cannot afford to be consumers. Several poor communities across Johannesburg, with the active assistance of the Anti Privatisation Forum, have launched Operation Vulamanzi in which the ‘control’ measures such as trickler systems, re-routed water piping and pre-paid meters have been by-passed by community residents in order to retain access to water. ANC politicians have publicly labelled community residents resisting water and electricity privatisation, ‘criminals’ and ‘anarchists’.