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City Press reports that two government departments and two major trade unions have announced that an investigation will be conducted into how 242 Chinese nationals obtained permission to work and live at a North West plant owned by cement giant PPC.
The Chinese workers are employed as part of PPC’s endeavour to add capacity to its Slurry plant. PPC insists the workers have “special skills”. The labour department promised to look into the matter after being contacted by Dennis George of labour federation Fedusa. Livhuwani Mammburu of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said the union, which is recognised at PPC, had no idea the Chinese workers were in the country. They are going to meet the company on site to investigate what special skills the Chinese workers have. A Home Affairs spokesperson said the department had instituted an investigation into whether the permits used to bring the Chinese workers into the country were valid.
- Read this report by Justin Brown in full at City Press
- Read this report in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (limit on access)
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