An activist who is tired of being classified as a coloured South African is now dragging the government to scrap the separate classifications of coloured and Indian and rather to regard them as black South Africans.
Glen Snyman, a teacher from Oudtshoorn and founder of People Against Race Classification (Parc), has started a lawsuit against the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and the National Department of Basic Education in the Cape Labour Court.
He claims, among other things, that:
* Brown and Indian people’s race classification should carry the same weight as when considering black candidates for positions or promotion;
* Blocks on application forms in which someone has to classify themselves as brown or Indian must be removed from all WCED forms.
* Someone can identify himself as “other” in the person’s racial classification, instead of coloured or Indian, on the WCED recruitment website;
* The WCED immediately stops using the word and id
Continue reading…