The Solidarity trade union has announced that they are continuing with a court application to force the minister of Water Affairs, Lindiwe Sisulu, to cancel her planned import of 24 Cuban water engineers, into South Africa at a cost of R65 million, especially since it was revealed that Sisulu refused to appoint qualified white engineers who have applied for the posts, simply because they were white.
Sisulu made this shameful admission in an interview with Radio 2000, yet Sisulu has not abandoned her Cuban import plans and is using stalling tactics like demanding more talks with Solidarity after Monday’s meeting.
Solidarity had the meeting with Minister Sisulu to try convince Sisulu to appoint South Africans to the post but she is not budging which is why on Tuesday Mr. Dirk Hermann of Solidarity told the media that Solidarity is continuing with the court process.
Solidarity had previously made a list of over a 100 suitably qualified South African engineers ava
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