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Do we have unfair and illegal racial discriminatory employment practices at the NMBM?

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A petition that says we do have racially unfair employment practices will be presented to the Office of the Speaker of the Nelson Mandela Bay Council once it has reached it’s goal of 500 signees.

Champion of the petition, Kupida Baron, says that the previously disadvantaged racial group, named in the Employment Equity Act as Black Coloured, are not even considered during the shortlisting processes for vacancies or promotional opportunities due to a prevailing institutionalised racist agenda.

Baron says: While the Municipal Council, the executive and legislative arm of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, did not sufficiently apply its oversight responsibility over the municipal administration for almost a decade, employment equity targets were illegally changed and manipulated to unfairly benefit a preferred racial group.

This prejudicial agenda (akin to the Apartheid era preferential employment of whites) is now fully entrenched at the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and resulted in major operational deficiencies hampering service delivery.

Signees of the petition demand that:

  1. Local racial demographics, as approved by the Municipal Council, be used henceforth.
  2. An item be tabled in Council to stop the status quo and consider recommendations for a fairer dispensation for all racial groups that is beneficial to applicants from Colchester, Despatch, Kariega, Gqeberha and surrounding areas.
  3. An audit be done to correctly verify the racial groups and skills levels of the current workforce that will be used as a yard stick for the development of an employment equity plan with fair discriminatory targets and an informed operational visionary forecast.

The petition to stand up against this flagrant human rights abuse, almost three decades since the fall of Apartheid, can be found here: https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-unfair-and-illegal-racial-discriminatory-employment-at-the-nmbm .

This petition will be submitted to the Office of the Speaker (paspeaker@mandelametro.gov.za) at the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality for further consideration.

Some reactions from signees:

  • Margaret Alexander – We want equal opportunity and fairness!
  • Dave Petersen – Discrimination should be something of the past and practised in apartheid era
  • Jean Beck – Us coloureds are not being recognized
  • Brian Salters – Enough is enough, the ANC is doing an injustice not just against coloureds but against all other races that’s not black, this is reverse racism of the apartheid era, and we as South Africans need to stop this, Mr Mandela said if the ANC does to us what the apartheid regim did, than we must to the ANC what we did to the apartheid regime.
  • Nicholas Jordaan – about time
  • Johannes Fortuin – We (Coloured people) were part of the struggle. Justice for all.
  • David Tau – Righteousness must prevail!
  • Bernadene Tsu – I’m tired of racial discrimination.
  • Brendon Martin – Demographic not properly applied in this metro

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