'The agency keeping the South African government on track is Britain's Department for International Development (DFID). This year it is giving £6.3 million to the Adam Smith Institute – the ultra-right wing privatisation lobby group – for "public sector reform" in South Africa. Staggeringly, the Institute has been given its own budget – £5m of British aid money – to disburse as it pleases. By this means, DFID can generate all the support it likes for privatisation and public-private partnerships, while avoiding direct responsibility for the decisions the institute makes.'