'Labour Department in Mitchells Plain overlooked coloured people for jobs' | Cape Argus

Cape Town - The SA Human Rights Commission in the province has found that discrimination against coloured applicants at the Labour Department's offices in Mitchells Plain constituted a human rights violation that must be further investigated by its national office. The commission conducted an investigation after a complaint laid by the organisation Gatvol Capetonians that coloured people were overlooked by the department when they applied for 46 posts last year.

“The commission can only conclude that the 46 appointed in one grouping undermines the rights of others in Mitchells Plain and therefore constitutes an alleged human rights violation. It will now recommend that the commission makes a thorough investigation into these practices in the provincial Labour Department.”

“This flies in the face of the undertakings that the department will in future have a balanced approach, for it is alleged from a reliable source that out of the 69 interns only three are coloureds, so the saga continues, hence my recommendations that an investigation into Western Cape department be undertaken by the SAHRC as a matter of urgency,” Nissen added.

Mitchells Plain businessman Ricario Brown said that Ntamo and all those implicated in the report must be immediately suspended for the duration of a thorough investigation.

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