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  • Privatisation is best because a motive for profit ensures that costs are kept down and efficiency is higher.

    McCain: families need to be in charge of health care 2008

  • Several African heads of state are expected to be key speakers at the second Pan-African investment summit entitled Privatisation in Practice to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Johannesburg from

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • - Privatisation occurs when state-owned enterprises are sold to private individuals and companies.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • To be fair to this administration the cornering law (alias Privatisation Act) was not promulgated by it.

    Vanguard News 2009

  • To be fair to this administration the cornering law (alias Privatisation Act) was not promulgated by it.

    Vanguard News 2009

  • 'Privatisation' and 'liberalisation', in reality, amount to technical terms for removing critical economic decisions from the realm of public accountability.

    unknown title 2009

  • Privatisation in the railways, gas, electricity and water has been a wholesale disaster creating an extra layer of profiteering and greed – and in so doing contributing to making things very expensive.

    David Hare: 'It's absurd, but I feel insecure' 2011

  • Privatisation would also mean that the university would not have to follow government guidelines on widening access to poorer students.

    LSE looks at option of going private Jeevan Vasagar 2010

  • Privatisation takes away the possibilities of adventure and play.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009

  • Privatisation of the NHS will return us to the Victorian values of death and misery for the poor.

    Martin Rowson on Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms 2011

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