* ANGLO American chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson this week threw his weight behind privatisation, arguing it would strongly support rather than conflict with the aims of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. JOT suggested South Africa’s forests and commercial buildings be privatised first.
JOT’s statement comes after similar urgings by visiting UK Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine, and Gencor’s Mick Davis.
Privatisation has bordered on being a dirty word in ANC circles, but could be sanitised by being connected to the RDP.