Now it is being increasingly felt that outsourcing of basic services has done more harm than benefit in South Africa. It is interesting to see that a cabinet minister differs on this view and instead blames the municipal workers who resist proper training. According to Oxfam’s Essential Services Campaign Report the increased use of private companies for the essential services related to health and water is further removing these from the reach of the poor.



It is found that jobs like bricklaying, electrician and engineers are restricted under apartheid. Another problem that has arisen is that they can have training for all these skills but now people refuse. The black South Africans were kept out of the mainstream economy under decades of apartheid white rule. The delivery of essential services should be driven by the central government and lack of money is no excuse.