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[Dominic Tweedie]

SATAWU PRESS STATEMENT CONDEMNING ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
INCLUDING XENOPHOBIA


Released: 28 May 2008


Satawu condemns all forms of discrimination including xenophobia.
Satawu further condemns the brutal and senseless attacks on nationals
from other African countries which resulted in fatal injuries and even
death. It calls on all its members and shopstewards to desist from
participating in any violent acts against these workers employed in
the transport, cleaning and security sectors and living in our
communities, police stations and churches.

In view of the events that had taken place in Gauteng, Western Cape,
Kwazulu Natal, Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape, Satawu makes the following
calls and interventions:

* Employers particularly in the road freight and security sectors must
refrain with immediate effect from employing non documented African
nationals as cheap labour
* Employers' must desist from using non documented labour as scabs
during strikes
* Employer associations will be engaged with a view to adopt
strategies to stamp out such practices which does create tensions
between locals and African nationals
* The Department of Labour must with immediate effect create the
necessary capacity (which it always claims it does not have) to
prosecute employers' who utilise non documented labour only for
exploitative purposes
* Government at all levels must take responsibility for speeding up
socio economic delivery to the masses of our people who remain poor
and feel marginalised at the lower rungs of the economic chain as
xenophobia is always likely to find expression where abject poverty is
abound even though criminal elements will use such opportunities
* Practical solidarity must also be given to our fellow African
brothers, sisters and children, who are part of the African working
class, by Satawu members particularly through our local structures.
These will take the form of collecting blankets and providing food and
other necessities at the camps, churches and police stations.


Please contact the General Secretary, Randall Howard @ 082 5646 298
for further comment.







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