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Human Rights Watch (HRW) Women's Rights Division monitors state-sponsored and state-tolerated violence against women and sex discrimination in all world regions. The Division seeks a full-time Researcher to improve awareness and accountability for human rights violations against women by conducting fact-finding missions and writing and publicizing reports among other tasks.
South African police have arrested a number of people as part of an investigation into a right-wing plot to topple the government.
The recent White House proposal to aid impoverished countries if they drop trade barriers and open their markets is likely to substantially accelerate the misery index in Latin America and Africa, the main targets of the $5 billion plan. Entitled the Millennium Challenge Account, the administration says it will be doled out to countries like Senegal, Ghana, Bolivia, and Honduras if they institute "the rule of law," as well as "sound fiscal policies." This latter includes free trade for "American goods and services." But 15 years of free trade and open markets have inflicted ruinous damage on poor countries in Latin America and Africa.
The NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (Coalition) has expressed concern that some candidates for judgeships at the newly-formed International Criminal Court (ICC) have not been nominated in accordance with the criteria provided in the Rome Statute of the ICC, or with the nomination procedures adopted by the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC's governing body.
Forty-six Ministers of Education of Africa were due to participate in the Conference of the Ministers of Education of African Member States (MINEDAF VIII) to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 2-6 December. In addition, 106 parliamentarians from 53 countries as well as representatives from international organisations and civil society were also due to participate in the discussion on how to meet the educational challenges in Africa.
The Iringa International School is searching for a Senior School Maths and Science teacher. The school is small and somewhat limited in resources, but the diverse student body is serious about learning from an intelligent, curious, and qualified Maths and Science Teacher .
Amid strides made countrywide to address the ever-escalating rate of HIV/Aids prevalence, the private sector, through the Private Sector Coalition Against HIV/Aids, has felt the need to fight the disease in the workplace.
The latest report from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network says that distribution of private and government relief food in Zambia has been very slow. As the first drops of the rainy season fall, only half the expected fertiliser and maize seed deliveries have been completed.
This week representatives from the NGO groundworks and the Northdale community met with government officials to discuss industrial air pollution problems.
Rich nations have done little to help fight HIV/AIDS, says the United Nations's top adviser on Aids in Africa. He says that the rich nations were "not serious" when it came to contributions towards the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria.
The first wave of 170,000 Angolan refugees are set to return home next year following a deal between the governments of Angola, Namibia and Zambia.
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The Civic Alliance for Social and Economic Progress (CASEP) has called for a constructive resolution of the "real and urgent problems" confronting the education sector. Attacking the victims of the crisis - the teachers, lecturers, students and communities around schools - did not resolve the problem, said the organisation.
In the summer of 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million people were killed over a three-month period, when Rwanda's Hutu government set out to eliminate the country's ethnic Tutsi minority. Most were killed with guns and machetes. But for many Tutsi women - accused by the Hutus of being too prideful - the Hutus used AIDS as part of their arsenal, raping them to infect them. A handful of programs are assisting women who were raped and infected with AIDS, but thousands more go without help.
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The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently held a two-day seminar on democracy and human rights. As part of the seminar, an impressive collection of related research and knowledge resources were organised and posted to a seminar web page. A list of these resources are provided through the link provided.
Steps have been taken at Zimbabwe's Tongogara refugee camp to stamp out allegations of sexual abuse following two incidents at the camp earlier this year, David Mlambo, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) administrator at the camp told IRIN on Monday.
International donors have agreed to support a fast-track education programme in seven developing countries including Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mauritania and Niger, the World Bank reported.
The return of exiled Liberian opposition leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to the capital, Monrovia, last week was a first step of a likely challenge to President Charles Taylor in the 2003 elections, diplomatic sources in Monrovia told IRIN.
Some 500 of the 4,000 people with acute respiratory illness reported since October in Bosobolo, in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported last Friday.
Heavy rains backed by gusting winds have displaced some 5,000 people in the central, south central and northwestern parts of the Republic of Congo, according to local administrators.
Two people have died of cholera in an outbreak in Tongwe, near Zimbabwe's Beit Bridge, forcing authorities to close the local school to contain the spread of the disease.
Zimbabwe on Monday said a decision to recall its high commissioner to Botswana was part of a broader government reshuffle and had nothing to do with President Festus Mogae's recent criticism of the country's political and economic policies.
Burundi President Pierre Buyoya and the leader of the rebel Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), Pierre Nkurunziza, signed a historic ceasefire agreement here early Tuesday aimed at ending a civil war which has killed around 300 000 people.
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In two previous widely-read volumes of essays prepared for Africa World Press (Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for Southern Africa and Recolonization and Resistance: Southern Africa in the 1990s) John S. Saul chronicled developments in Africa, and especially in southern Africa, as the continent neared century's end. Here he returns to issues raised in those volumes and projects his analysis forward into the new century and the new millennium. Saul moves from the broadest kind of evaluation of the prospects for capitalist development in Africa as a whole to an especially detailed (and markedly sobering) reading of the present situation in post-apartheid, neo-liberal South Africa.
Rethinking Revolution brings to life the spirited and often contentious debates among frontline activists over how to unify and transform their societies toward greater economic, social and political equality. Connell looks at the most dynamic new social movements in these countries and examines how they are challenging and enriching the strategic vision of leading political parties, even as they redefine the nature of power and the struggle to achieve it. He concludes that “democracy without justice is ritual without substance, but justice without democracy is charity, not change.”
These essays review Africa's economic performance over the last two decades from a contemporary historical perspective. The contributors include Professor Luhanga, and Professor Issa Shivji, from the University of Dar es Salaam. They argue that the problem in East Africa is the lack of integration into a world economy and culture; and simultaneously, the African way of life developing as a hybrid of ideas, values and behaviour which erodes independent/national identities and political and economic life.
The Awutu Bawjiase Rural Bank in the Central Region has granted over 786 million cedis in the form of loans to about 2,188 women under its "Credit With Education" (CWE) scheme. The scheme, apart from helping to alleviate the poverty of women and inculcating the habit of saving, also aims at educating them on environmental and domestic hygiene, family planning, home management, HIV/AIDS and ecological protection.
Participants at a two-day training workshop on survivors of domestic violence have agreed that emotional, psychological and spiritual violence can be as devastating and destructive as physical violence.
The United States said last Saturday it had received information that terrorist attacks similar to the anti-Israeli strikes in Kenya could be repeated in Djibouti and Yemen and has urged US citizens there to boost their security precautions.
President Mugabe and Sydney Sekeramayi, the Minister of Defence, have remained mum about the casualties and financial costs of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite Sekeramayi's promise in September that the figures would be revealed at Saturday's DRC withdrawal military parade in Harare.
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"There is no food at home. I am fed at school. I think I would die without school meals, like my sister did," Janice Simelane, an eight-year-old second grade student at Swaziland's Sobani Primary School, says.
Protection of the natural resource base will form an important basis of our people's socio-economic development. Although due regard has been given to environmental conservation and preservation, it has not been sufficient to contain deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, wildlife resource depletion, diminishing biodiversity and accelerated pollution of water, land and air.
The Malawi Minister of Agriculture, Aleke Banda, has declared total war on hunger because he hates to see his government begging food from donors. He says the country has water and fertile land in abundance.
The National Housing Enterprises (NHE) says it will go ahead with plans to evict pensioners who have not paid debts. Ten days ago over 250 senior citizens marched to the Prime Minister's Office to voice their grievances after they were threatened with eviction.
President Levy Mwanawasa's opposition to the abuses and injustices of the Chiluba regime won him a lot of support and respect from a great a majority of Zambians. But many are starting to wonder how blind his quest for justice is.
The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, opening the Working Group session on People of African Descent, pointed out that the group had evolved from the World Conference against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, in September 2001. The Working Group evolves from issues such as xenophobia, racial discrimination and related intolerance.
The ANC leadership will meet with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to get clarity on why two ANC MECs were sacked from the KwaZulu-Natal cabinet. Smuts Ngonyama, the ANC spokesperson, said the meeting would take place tomorrow but the venue had not been confirmed.
There is no immediate solution in sight for on-going fuel problems as the government reduces imports in line with a new policy to only supply indigenous operators. The new policy comes as fuel queues of up to half-a-kilometre long resurface in Harare.
A review has been produced as a contribution to the UN General Assembly follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The review is based on research and dialogues in order to help inspire discussion about how to make the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) more effective in promoting implementation of sustainable development.
Last week, women from Ovwian and Aladja communities in Delta State besieged the Delta Steel plant to register their grievances against the company. This Day newspaper investigates the issues at stake.
In the run up to the Kenyan election, The Nation newspaper takes a look at and analyses what policies and actions are being promised by the main election contenders. Many Kenyans are deeply disappointed by the way some leaders have conducted themselves over the past couple of weeks.
The war in Nothern Uganda has created a generation of conflict-affected youngsters who will grow up emotionally, physically, and economically blighted in displacement camps, according to a report by the The Civil Society Organisation for Peace in Northern Uganda (CSOPNU).
More than a thousand people, including leading celebrities, took to the streets of Johannesburg on Sunday to protest the vicious cycle of women and child abuse.
Scientists from seven developing countries are to take part in a new US$26-million research project to unravel the mysteries of soil biodiversity. The project, launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will carry out research into tropical soil-dwelling organisms such as insects, beetles, fungi, worms and bacteria.
At the end of September, Colin Powell requested an altogether earthly intercession from Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican foreign minister. The Secretary of State wanted the Vatican to persuade the Zambian government to accept U.S.-supplied genetically modified (GM) food aid. With a population under 10 million and with the vast majority of people earning under $1,000 a year, Zambia is a mouse that has roared. In refusing to accept U.S. GM corn, and by dealing with its famine by sourcing grain from within the region, the Zambian government has sent a clear signal that it understands both why famines happen and that U.S. aid is part of the problem, not the solution.
Eighteen-year-old Mathias Walubita has just returned from writing his Grade 11 exams, but is already preparing for a weekend of hard work. He has to change out of his school uniform into casual wear, before walking eight kilometres to the centre of Katima Mulilo, on an empty stomach. The centre is where he has a weekend job of loading trucks. Tall and shy, Mathias is one of the estimated 82 000 Aids orphans in Namibia.
Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made has finally admitted that the government has failed to ensure food security for the famine-stricken nation. This more than a year after repeatedly dismissing warnings of a serious grain shortage, says the Standard Newspaper.
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A total eclipse of the sun was visible on December 4 from within a narrow corridor which traversed the Southern Hemisphere. The path of the Moon's shadow began in the South Atlantic and crossed southern Africa. After traversing the southern Indian Ocean, the path swept through southern Australia where the eclipse ended at sunset. A partial eclipse was seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which included most of Africa.
The judge leading government anti-corruption efforts in Nigeria has accused parliament of attempting to undermine a probe into alleged financial wrongdoing by senators.
At least 38-million people in Africa are threatened by hunger, caused mostly by a drought that is extending from the Horn of Africa to the southern part of the continent, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
Shell Oil warned Tuesday of a "potential disaster" as hundreds of slum-dwellers scooped crude oil spilling from a ruptured pipeline that the company said could explode at any time.
This distance learning course provides human rights activists with a range of proven human rights advocacy methods and critical concepts as a means for them to reflect on and deepen their own work. The course will look at the theoretical foundations and critical issues of human rights advocacy, elements of advocacy planning, and strategies for action.
Workshop aims to give to participants basic knowledge on HIV/AIDS and human rights. It will present examples of cases of discrimination and human rights violations associated with HIV/AIDS.
Journalist Paulette Kimuntu and cameraman Kadima Baruani have been arrested in front of the South African embassy in Kinshasa. Both journalists work for the private television station Radiotélévision Kin-Malebo (RTKM). Kimuntu and Baruani were taken to the Police Special Services prison in Kin-Mazière. The authorities have yet to provide an official explanation for the journalists' arrest and detention.
Muslim and Christian religious leaders will foster support and compassion for those living with HIV/AIDS under a new program launched in Ghana, where approximately a half-million people are living with the virus that causes AIDS. Reach Out, Show Compassion for people living with HIV/AIDS is the second phase of the successful Stop AIDS, Love Life national communication program, which began in February 2000.
The Healthy Futures project aimed to reduce the drop out rate among Kenyan girls in primary school (equivalent to US grades one through eight) in 31 communities in five districts. The project guided community members to address barriers young girls face in completing primary education and devise solutions to those barriers. This report describes the Healthy Futures activities and lessons learned from April 1998 to June 2000.
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) has condemned the actions of the Kenyan police on the weekend of 30 November to 1 December, during which they arrested, manhandled and detained two South African journalists in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.
Gender concerns have been markedly lacking in the development of a new national policy on international migration to South Africa. This paper, from the Southern African Migration Project, assesses the situation in the policy-making process and the content of the policy, and asks why this is so.
What problems do working children in Zimbabwe experience? How can they best be heard and supported? A book draws attention to the plight of working children and suggests ways forward, while acknowledging that children’s earnings are essential to the livelihoods of many marginalised families.
Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change.
It has become a part of the conventional wisdom of development policy that poverty reduction is one of the main development objectives. What are the key factors influencing the struggle to re-orient public expenditure towards the interests of the poor? This working paper from the Overseas Development Institute synthesises the key findings from case studies in five countries (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), each of which examined how public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has accused the private sector in South Africa of “manifestly failing” to contribute effectively to combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The SACP charged that financial institutions had evicted HIV/AIDS orphans from houses bonded to their late parents. “In many cases, these evictions are compounded by policies of insurance companies which exclude HIV/AIDS cover. These policies are cruel, inhumane and reflect the poverty of private commercial banks and the insurance industry in our country,” said the SACP.
Declaring that “the education of girls is key to real progress in overcoming poverty,” UNICEF announced a major initiative to get girls into school in 25 priority countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
A special issue of Ageways, HelpAge International's regular publication, highlights the devastating impact that HIV/AIDS is having on older people and suggests practical ways to support those who are caring for relatives with AIDS and orphaned grandchildren.
When Angola's long civil war ended this year, critics of the government hoped that peace would begin to change a nation considered one of the world's most corrupt. So far, say many of those critics, the encouraging signs are few.
As weapons inspections in Iraq kick into high gear, most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. But some in the Bush Administration are still dead set on war, even if the inspections are working. Please join us in asking the Bush Administration and the United Nations to: 'Let the Inspections Work'. President Bush has agreed that war should be the very last resort. Let's hold him and his administration to those words.
The World Organisation Against Torture has asked concerned parties to write to the authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking them to guarantee the safety of Omba Lumbu, who has been arrested in connection with information he reportedly held concerning the involvement of the Malta Forrest Company Group in the plundering of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
* Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Reply to John Saul by Jeremy Cronin
John Saul has had an extensive and committed involvement with Southern Africa. His analyses are taken seriously in left circles in South Africa. Sadly, perhaps understandably, his most recent extended visit to this country has left him feeling deeply disappointed (“Cry for the Beloved Country: The Post-Apartheid Denouement,” Monthly Review 52, no. 8, January 2001, pp. 1–51).
* Starting from Scratch?: A Reply to Jeremy Cronin by John S. Saul
It is interesting that, on one of the two main fronts of inquiry opened up in my original essay, Jeremy Cronin professes—despite the wounded tone he adopts throughout and for all his talk about my “frozen penultimates,” “sneers,” and “derision”—to be in considerable agreement with me. This concerns my reading of the overall trajectory of socioeconomic policy that the African National Congress (ANC) government has adopted since 1994.
Peace efforts in the war-torn Somalia received a major boost this week following a declaration to end hostilities in the country's capital of Mogadishu. The seven Somali faction leaders whose militia have been fighting in the capital signed a joint declaration in a landmark resolution.
Related Link: Talks move into phase two
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South African electricity giant Eskom, which last week won generating and distributing rights from the Uganda Electricity Board, has been warned to keep clear of the controversial Bujagali Dam project by environmental and anti-corruption pressure groups.
Strong opposition has trailed the FATWA (death sentence) passed on THIS DAY newspaper reporter, Isioma Daniel, by the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, North-western Nigeria, over an allegedly blasphemous article which allegedly triggered riots in Kaduna and Abuja two weeks ago. Among the prominent voices opposed to the sentence is Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, who called for the immediate prosecution of Zamfara Deputy Governor Aliyu Shinkafi.
The South African, Mozambique and Zimbabwean presidents will launch an African "super park" adjoining the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said on Tuesday.
What West African leaders feared most is happening. The complex and chaotic conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has become more confused and spilled over its borders, potentially drawing in a number of its neighbours and threatening a nervous and volatile region, prone to crises and war.
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Sleeping sickness affects 100,000 people in Angola, the Director of the country's Institute for the Eradication of Trypanosomiasis, Teofilo Josenando has revealed.
A local child rights advocacy group has requested the Ministries of National Defence and Justice to investigate reports of child conscription into militia units in the country.
Namibian human rights activists on Wednesday called for the immediate release of 78 Angolans at Dordabis prison, saying their ongoing detention constituted a gross human rights violation.
Sudan's warring parties have accused each other of arming and supporting the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an insurgent group which is waging war against the Ugandan government from hideouts inside Sudan.
Sheila Makumbo, a former soldier popularly known as "Yondo Sister" counts herself among the lucky few women who have benefited from Zimbabwe's land reform programme. However, Makumbo is frustrated that more women have not been given the opportunity. According to official figures, only about 16 percent of land redistributed by the government has gone to women.
A survey in The Gambia in October found that acute malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months was 11.2 percent, which was above the 10 percent ceiling used in African countries to indicate an alarming situation, the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
A human rights activist, along with his wife and young child, have been assassinated in their home close to Uvira in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
If the Nigerian Bar Association should have its way, elected political office holders in the country would not have the chance for a second term. In letters to both chambers of parliament last month, the umbrella body for Nigerian lawyers canvassed an urgent amendment to the constitution to provide for a single, five-year presidency that would extend President Olusegun Obasanjo’s stay in office by one year.
The curtain has now closed on the 2002 electoral nominations. There are those who have fairly won or lost and others who have clearly been rigged out. Many accuse major political party players of lack of democracy, manifested through the flouting of democratic rules and fair play. Women candidates, as expected, given their marginality in the top decision-making party hierarchy combined with the traditional socio-economic hurdles and highly patriarchal political theatres of electoral engagement, fared more poorly than their male counterparts, with only about 30 survivors.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered 22 new political parties, bringing the total number registered to 28. INEC Chairman Dr. Abel Guobadia said the commission had scrutinised the organisations and been satisfied with what it had found.
Animal welfare organisations say that many of the animals raised in South Africa's growing predator industry end up being part of "canned" hunts - hunting expeditions where wealthy tourists shoot domesticated game in small, fenced-in areas.
A group of Islamists based in Somalia and linked to Al-Qa'ida has emerged as the prime suspect for last Thursday's bomb and missile attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya, American officials claim.
Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda) has been chosen as the site of the first women-oriented facility established by the ITU Internet Training Centres Initiative for Developing Countries (ITCI-DC). The ITCI-DC is an initiative between ITU and the private sector in which Cisco Systems Inc. is a key partner.
Rural women, most of whom are farmers speaking only the local language of their region, are among the most isolated groups in Africa. Anne Walker describes the rationale and methodology used in developing the CD-ROM "Rural Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money" designed to meet the needs of rural women in Africa to have access to relevant and appropriate information that will improve their marketing and survival skills.
The Internet Society has started a new discussion list: [email protected] It will host discussions on software as a public good, free software and open source software applications on third world development and Internet access, and open standards for interfaces and communications. Visit http://www.isoc.org/members/discuss/pubsoft.shtml if you'd like to join the discussions.
This research concerns the costs of computers in schools in developing countries. It examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, including data from Zimbabwe and South Africa. The paper also raises issues which can affect computer provision and utilisation including processes of allocating provision, training of teachers in the use of ICT and models of provision.
Residents in Senegal are bettering their livelihood, improving their businesses and maintaining contact with family and friends through telecentres. The computer hubs are allowing residents to get online at reasonable prices to search for information and even improve business efficiencies. More and more centres are springing up around Senegal, giving residents a new opportunity to learn about technology and benefit from its access.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has added a new feature to its Web site dedicated to the ongoing criminal trial in Mozambique of suspects in the Carlos Cardoso murder case. Cardoso, Mozambique's leading investigative reporter, was gunned down on November 22, 2000. Six people were arrested in March 2001 for the murder.
Former president Nelson Mandela officially launched a R80m initiative to provide free anti-retroviral treatment to 9 000 patients in the public sector at Johannesburg Botanical Gardens this week. The initiative, called Tshepang (which means to have hope), is a joint initiative between the South African Medical Association (Sama) and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Thousands of South Africans have pledged their support for the 16 days of activism against the abuse of women and children.
The Lions Club of Chilanga has helped lift the burden off government in caring for the needy, UPND Chilanga MP Captain Cosmas Moono has said. On a fund-raising walk by the Lions Club of Chilanga on Saturday, Capt. Moono said it was encouraging to see how consistent the club had been in helping to look after the terminally ill.
Global Vision International has recently launched its new website, www.gvi.org.uk, which will assist charities, non-profits, NGO's and governmental organisations around the world to source volunteers and raise funds for their conservation, research, and community development projects. This new venture offers participating organisations development assistance in establishing a volunteer programme to help provide access to committed human resources and funding through a share of volunteer donations. Each fundraising and volunteer recruitment scheme is tailored to the individual programme to ensure that the participating organisation gets maximum benefit from Global Vision's Support.
To reduce poverty in developing countries, urgent action is needed to combat poor reproductive health and to help women avoid unwanted pregnancies. This can be achieved by eliminating illiteracy and gender discrimination, says the State of World Population 2002 report.
Concern is mounting over urban food security in Mozambique, with retail maize prices continuing to be much higher than normal, says the latest Famine Early Warning Systems Network for the country.
It is now evident that many governments in developing countries are being "persuaded" by the powers that be to privatise water. This occurs irrespective of the hard lessons learnt about privatisation carried out in other areas.