The group claim they learnt of their dismissal from the media on April 1, but thought it was an April Fool’s prank.
Fourteen Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa guards are challenging their axing for allegedly trying to rob the agency late last year.
“We do not have charge sheets, so we were never charged internally. We were served with letters demanding reasons why we should not be suspended and there was a 48-hour deadline. We were in prison and could not meet the deadline. That was the last we heard of the matter until the dismissal through the media,” George Mochoele said on behalf of the group yesterday.
The group maintained they went to Prasa House to test the security after a series of thefts, an explanation the state has rejected as improbable.But the axed employees said there were no such hearings. “Let them give you names of members who were part of that hearing and who chaired those hearings. We thought this was an April Fool’s joke. We are going to take Prasa head-on,” Mochoele said.
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