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SowetanLive reports that a group of 27 white health and administration staff at the Eastern Cape's premier psychiatric hospital, Fort England in Grahamstown, have alleged they are victims of racial discrimination, abuse and hate speech.
They claim this hate speech is coming from black unionist colleagues who want to rid the institution of white managers. The group, speaking through their union, Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of SA (Hospersa), said they had written twice to the Eastern Cape department of health's superintendent-general Dr Thobile Mbengashe seeking protection. National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) Eastern Cape provincial secretary Miki Jaceni refuted the claims levelled against his union. In one of the letters, dated 19 March, Hospersa chair Anneline Fry told Mbengashe about "intolerable working conditions, ongoing tireless victimisation and making up of false statements against white managers". The hospital's operations manager, Stafford Allan Fry, has opened a criminal case with the Equality Court against Nehawu branch chair and former employee at the hospital Thando Mtshalala for using hate speech. Mtshalala resigned on Friday, but refused to comment when approached on Monday. Both Frys, in their letters and in the court application, called Mtshalala's behaviour "vile" and "abusive".
- Read this report by Malibongwe Dayimani in full at SowetanLive
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