White South African workers protest against Sasol's black share scheme
Workers from South Africa's mainly-white Solidarity union staged a go-slow protest at the petrochemicals firm Sasolon Monday over a share scheme offered exclusively to black staff, and said they would begin a full strike on Thursday.South African companies are required to meet quotas on black ownership, employment and procurement as part of a drive to reverse decades of exclusion under apartheid.Solidarity has been waging a challenge against racial quotas in the workplace, and lodged a complaint
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