ANA reports that labour federation Cosatu on Thursday demanded an investigation by the Department of Labour and an immediate deportation of Chinese nationals who are allegedly working illegally in SA.
This was after a Cosatu investigation uncovered that a Chinese state company, CBMI Construction, was allegedly allowed to bring in about 242 workers to SA to work on a R1.2 billion construction project at cement supplier PPC’s slurry plant in North West in 2015. According to Cosatu, the workers have been working in SA since October 2015 and are set to continue on the project until 2018. It said in a statement on Thursday: “We find this totally unacceptable that for a country with over 9.2 million unemployed people, some companies are allowed to bring cheap labour from as far as Asia to work in this country.”
- Read this report in full at The Citizen
- Read Cosatu’s press statement at Cosatu Today
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