The DA announced in its manifesto on Saturday that it had plans to allow private-sector firms to provide municipal services. The DA announced in its manifesto on Saturday that it had plans to allow private-sector firms to provide municipal services. Perpetuating ‘culture of tenderpreneurship’Trade union federation Cosatu has rejected the DA’s call to privatise municipal services, claiming that it would be a recipe for disaster. “We need to end this culture of feasting off of municipal services at the expense of communities, workers and businesses. “Those functions that are broken or not profitable, the private sector will not take over,” he said.