The party alleged that white trainees at Siemens were given the opportunity to be trained overseas and subsequently permanently hired while black trainees were not afforded the same opportunity.
“We are not going to hand over the memorandum today. We will come back to a round-table meeting. If that fades, we will come back to a shutdown and make sure that ... Siemens come to a halt,” he said.The EFF claimed that it had in December 2022 submitted a memorandum of demands but these were not attended to.
“We have decided that we are not going to submit our memorandum to the two executives who are inside their offices. These two comrades are directly involved in the issues we are complaining about.” EFF supporters accusing Siemens of unfair labour practices picket outside the company's offices in Midrand.“We need a meeting with the CEO but we are told that he is in Germany so we will wait until March 27 and have a round-table meeting,” he said.Makwala said the management was problematic, lacks the capacity to handle their problems and could not deal with their issues.
“Our issues involve racism — the CEO is white, the CFO is white, everyone at the top management is white and we can't sit and watch helplessly when racism is playing in our own faces,” he said.Makwala told supporters before they dispersed that the party had already sent Siemens three emails requesting a meeting.TimesLIVE has reached out to Siemens on the allegations. The company had not replied at the time of publishing.
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