Another charge of racism against Eskom

Eskom faces a second charge of racial discrimination. An Indian member of the trade union Solidarity has laid the charge. The claim follows shortly on the heels of that of a coloured employee, Leon Christiaans, who says he was passed over for promotion in favour of a black man. Dirk Hermann, of Solidarity, says the union laid a charge at the labour court after the Indian member had applied for promotion in 2004, but was not short listed. Hermann says the member was told by email that the company had decided to only place black persons on the shortlist in accordance with the country’s demography.