1.   Trade unions also want the government to drop plans to privatise all sectors of the economy.

2.   Power workers went on strike ten days ago to protest against plans to privatise their sector of the economy.

3.   The banking sector should be privatised quickly but new solutions had to be found because privatisation of the banks had not yielded much fruit so far, he said.

4.   The bill does not give a timetable for privatisation, and does not specify which sectors should be privatised.

5.   The government had privatised the sector partly to separate the functions of producer and distributor and thereby introduce competition.