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Solidarity to serve court papers on Minister Sisulu over Cubans engineers

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SolidarityEngineering News reports that trade union Solidarity is to serve court papers on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to force the disclosure of information and stop the deployment of Cuban engineers to SA, pending an application for a review of the government’s decision.

This followed after the Minister did not meet the deadline to submit a proposal to defuse the dispute between Solidarity and the government regarding the deployment of 24 Cuban engineers. Solidarity CE Dr Dirk Hermann indicated as follows: “The government came with a request to come up with a proposal and twice we have postponed the deadline for such a proposal. Apart from the fact that the government did not meet the deadline, the Minister also did not respond to critical/key legal questions posed by Solidarity. Important information is still being withheld from the public.” Solidarity opened its legal action by starting a process dealing with the disclosure of information. It has also brought an application for the deployment of the Cuban engineers to be stopped pending a review application that will ensue. In the review application, Solidarity will seek to have the government’s decision to import Cubans declared invalid on the grounds that the decision to import Cubans while South African skills were available was not rational and also that it would be unlawful for Cubans to undertake and sign off on professional engineering projects as they did not comply with SA registration and accreditation requirements.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard at Engineering News
  • Read Solidarity’s press statement in regard to this matter at Solidarity News


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