Posts tagged with 'Solidarity'

 

Eskom engineer not entitled to promotion because he is white, no wonder the power utility is in such a mess

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A white engineer at Eskom is being assisted by Solidarity trade union after he applied 2 times for posts at the power station where he currently works – posts for which he was the best candidate – but was told that the posts can’t go to him because he is a white male.

Eskom’s initial plan was to reduce whites in engineering posts with 336 but that plan was dropped in February this year after the Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe asked for a postponement from the Labour department because of a critical skills shortage. A black candidate who was not fully qualified got the one post for which the white engineer applied in a temporary capacity because there is no black engineer available who is fully qualified. The post has to do with risk management of high pressure equipment and an engineer has to have a specific certificate to be able to do that.

The white engineer has that certificate, the black engineer don’t and now the white engineer still has to do the job of the bl
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NO SABOTAGE AT ESKOM – POWER GRID IN SA FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE

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Now the truth comes out, and it is not what Ramaphosa told you . Ramaphosa told the country this past Wednesday that sabotage was the reason for phase 6 loadshedding and it happened when an unspecified instrument was disconnected from one of the boilers at the Tutuka power station and that this led to the loss of as much as 2000MW of power.

But in an investigation by Rapport this statement was found not to be true.

The truth is a lack of planning and maintenance of power stations, especially the boilers. Rapport has spoken to both an energy expert, Mike Rossouw, and Solidarity who has many members in that sector and the true state of Eskom was revealed by them. The loss of 2 units at Tutuka power station, where Ramaphosa said sabotage is to blame, has more logical reasons and it boils down to a lack of maintenance.

Deon Reyneke, Solidarity trade union’s deputy head responsible for Eskom, has given the true reasons for the loss of 2 units at Tutuka. The first
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Panyaza Lesufi slams new Afrikaans university funded by Solidarity: ‘Don’t remind us of apartheid’ – Jealousy makes you nasty!

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The campus is part of the union’s education and employment projects worth R4,5 billion over the next five years. The project is set to cost about R300 million funded through donations from the community, the union said.

The university will be home to Solidarity’s accredited, Afrikaans private vocational training college founded on Christian values.

The campus is the first of the major projects the union would embark on over the next five years to boost education and employment to the tune of R4,5 billion.

The next project would be the construction of the Akademia campus where “world-class education will be offered through Afrikaans as the medium of instruction”.

“The strength of Sol-Tech and of this campus lies in the fact that it is being built by the community,” said Solidarity COO Dr Dirk Hermann.

“Every Solidarity member donates R10 to a building fund each month.

“Thousands of members of the public donate smaller amounts each month
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Let this be a lesson for South Africa, that racism isn’t colour blind – Head of basic police development, Major General Sandra Malebe-Thema found guilty of racism

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The trade union Solidarity today announced that the South African Police Service (SAPS), found the Head of Basic Police Development, Major-General Sandra Malebe-Thema guilty of racism.

According to Anton van der Bijl, Head of Legal Service at Solidarity, Malebe-Thema made herself guilty of racist and humiliating remarks towards various training personnel during an event at the SAPS Training Academy in Oudtshoorn, in 2016. Van der Bijl also said that the General stated that there were too many white faces occupying positions in training and that the so-called discrimination against black students will be stopped. “During the same event she also made inappropriate comments about a selected group of personnel’s clothing and weight,” Van der Bijl confirmed.

The trade union acted immediately by submitting a formal complaint to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Cape Town, in November 2016. Solidarity maintained the pressure by turning to the Labour
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