Anti-Privatisation Forum

For ten years the APF was a vibrant social movement in Gauteng townships, including areas on the East Rand and in Soweto and Orange Farm.

Many ordinary members were interested primarily in fighting against immediate problems, such as evictions and cut-offs, and did not take hard political positions.

Others however were influenced by left-wing ideas, including Marxism–Leninism in the Socialist Party of Azania tradition, Trotskyism in various forms, and anarchist communism.

Trevor Ngwane, one of the founding members, and a former town councillor[2] was the APF's best known figure: his politics were orthodox Trotskyism.

[3] The movement suffered significant state repression, largely directed at protestors from APF community-based affiliates.