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Business Report writes that according to Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) chairperson Rosemary Anderson, if every foreign national in SA was removed, ”we would still have a severe unemployment problem. We need to look at the source of why we have such unacceptable levels of unemployment.”
This was said after the political party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng confronted three restaurants in Menlyn Mall in Pretoria last week about the "employment ratio" between South Africans and foreign nationals in their establishments. The EFF said it wanted to establish the gap and later conceded that the restaurants were trying to hire South Africans. Anderson indicated last week that it was illegal for anyone to ask an establishment to furnish information about the staff unless they were certified officials or inspectors acting lawfully with sufficient reason. "In terms of the Popi Act and the Constitution, disclosing personal information is in contravention of South African law. Fedhasa and its members and the hospitality industry at large, are thus legally bound to not disclose the personal information of employees, including the nationality of staff, to anyone unless they are officials. If this information is disclosed to a person not legislatively entitled to it, the employer will be breaking the law of our land," she advised. Anderson said the reasons behind the high unemployment rate were corruption, crime, and the breakdown of the provision of bulk services such as electricity, water and sanitation, and roads. "So let’s all start looking at what is causing unemployment and work towards sustainable solutions of the problems, instead of trying to put band-aids on symptoms and not the causes," she said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Dieketseng Maleke at Business Report
- Read too, Juju’s demands ‘illegal’ on page 7 of Saturday Citizen of 22 January 2022
- And also, Security, hospitality sectors & farms could soon get a visit from Malema over not hiring locals, at TimesLive
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