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Daily News reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has reported an eThekwini Municipality senior official to the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for referring to a senior colleague as the C-word in a leaked recorded phone call.
The senior eThekwini official, who heads a key unit in the city and whose name has been withheld, allegedly referred to his Indian colleague Krish Kumar, the city’s deputy city manager, with the derogatory racial term “c*****” numerous times. DA caucus leader Nicole Graham said they had written to city manager Sipho Nzuza calling for the senior official to be suspended immediately. In the phone call, the senior official is heard repeatedly referring to Kumar as a c***** and is also heard trying to convince the person on the phone to protect an official implicated in the orange bag scandal. The official is facing a disciplinary hearing within the city. Graham wrote in a letter to Nzuza: “His (the implicated official’s) utterances where he admits to trying to subvert a disciplinary process and calls Krish a c***** are completely outrageous. We cannot have racists in the upper echelons of the city, especially when they show such disdain for respected colleagues. His admissions that he is bowing to political pressure are very worrying indeed.” The city’s investigations and integrity unit (CIIU) is investigating the matter, while the IFP in eThekwini said it was disturbing that politicians were involved in internal disciplinary processes.
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