I had no idea that this was going on. What a shame, Bundy once stood for resistance to apartheid.

No, Bundy gave up the anti-Imperialism and anti-Apartheid stuff years ago when he was in charge of Wits University in South Africa. He privatised everything he could and ensured lots of (especially black) workers lost their livelihoods. You can read about his time there on this site:  http://resistwits.tripod.com/

Here's the goodbye letter to Bundy from his former students and staff in South Africa:

Anti-Privatisation Forum - Wits University

Communique #3 - Bundy is a Liar  http://resistwits.tripod.com/farewell.htm

Dear Mr Bundy,

When you assumed the Vice-Chancellor post at Wits University in 1997, you
enjoyed the backing of organisations on campus during your selection. On the
authority of your academic credentials, it was presumed that you would
pursue transformation of the institution from an Apartheid icon into one
that opened its doors to historically disadvantaged students and produced
graduates with the relevant skills to reverse the legacies of the past. Even
in your acceptance speech, you affirmed the need to integrate the University
with the city and communities. Once in office, however, you were a changed
man, turning from Marxist academic into an authoritarian administrator.
Instead of transforming Wits for the benefit of the poor and working class,
you have helped reconfigure the elitism the University represents and fenced
off campuses from the reality of Johannesburg outside.

What does transformation mean to you Mr Bundy because it looks a lot like
regression? Ignoring the wealth of expertise already at Wits and the
extensive history of the struggle for equity at Wits to which you were
responsible, you went and brought in consultants to recommend how the
University should be restructured. Paying them R4.5 million only to be told
that services should be privatised makes the future dear indeed. Without any
consideration of the alternatives, you and your "impressive layer" of
cronies shunted this recommendation through an unrepresentative and
illegitimate Council and 620 workers lost their jobs. You are directly
responsible for compounding the misery of workers. Perhaps you don't realise
what it means to have your wages halved from one day to the next while your
housing subsidy, medical aid and pension benefits are removed at the same
time because someone else is cleaning your toilet bowl. Mr Bundy, of course
Supercare can clean the University more cheaply than you can your own ass.
But Supercare workers have to stand the stink.

We are interested to know, then, how this sits with your conscience?

The restructuring of the catering services breached the contract resident
students effectively sign with the University administration at the
beginning of the year. Your administration has negotiated the terms of their
stay in residence and the food they eat without ever thinking that they
should know about it. From one day to the next, catered residence students
were told they would be taking meals elsewhere and from a caterer they had
no reason to trust. Men's Residence, Jubilee and Sunnyside residences
declared a boycott of food provided by Fedics in the first week on campus.
You didn't save much money for this blunder because each student had to be
remunerated for each meal abstained from.

You claim the cost savings from outsourcing will benefit students, that
services will be of better quality, more efficient. But if you are just
cutting back to save students higher fees, what kind of crisis is this that
you invoke to justify the brutality of Wits 2001? Rather than improving
services, your plan has destroyed internal relations, erecting barriers
between departments and service providers. You've clearly not tried to get
your Office's ration of coffee yourself. Fedics just don't do it! Also, drop
by the canteen some time, Mr Bundy, and you won't remember prices having
been so high.

During your tenure at Wits, you took it upon yourself to close down
academic departments that were deemed irrelevant or, more to the point,
unprofitable. In your restructuring of the arts and humanities, you've cued
up 26 senior lecturers for retrenchment and 60 for early retirement. What
anxiety junior lecturers must be suffering not knowing whether they'll be
wanted or not. Casualising intellectual labour was a hobby you adopted when,
Mr Bundy? You emerge at the top of the heap to dumb everyone back down!

Your decision to leave Wits for SOAS is one that didn't shock as much as
arrive with some familiarity. So, you're going to join the prestigious SOAS
in London having done your duties in the colonial service. The Home Office
'hunted your head' recognising your valuable service to the empire and the
thrift with which you chopped the natives in restoring order. After all your
studies, Mr Bundy, you still are stupid to the fact of SOAS's imperialism,
its own necessary condescension and distance. Perhaps it's your most blatant
lie: leaving Africa to cast your eyes back at the continent from London from
your oak panelled study, comfortable in the thought that you had served
well. In an esoteric excursion into Darkest Africa, you most famously
observed the peasants arising and afalling, made your relevant notes before
entering the royal collegiality at Wits, struck off the futures of hundreds
and returned with much fanfare to the hallowed halls of English academia.

Coward, liar and opportunist! The only reason we are sorry to see you go is
that you'll not be here to see the consequences of your scheme.

With loathing and contempt,

The Anti-Privatisation Forum