Disgusting!
That is how some Afrikaans newspaper readers reacted after workers from the Escom Medupi powerstation threw away their lunch packets, because they would rather want 'warm meals'.In this photo cafeteria staff look at the food on the ground in amazement. This while many minority 'white' Afrikaners are denied food aid from the government. White Afrikaners are denied any government support on the colour of their skin. Afriforum and Solidarity said many times that being poor does not discriminate however the government refuse to help Afrikaners dying of malnutrition.
These union workers were complaining for a year about getting warm meals. It is a sad state of affairs inluding how misadministration waste muncipality money and the whole SA infrastructure paying the price.
Source: BEELD
Dude don't wait but get out of there personally. Have someone important go to Argentina and meet with provincial governors, and then talk to the central government... They have enough free land and can accommodate a few hundred thousand law-abiding and responsible people. The same can be done in Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, anywhere in Latin America. But Argentina is the closest both geographically and culturally, it has many immigrants from Germany and Holland, besides SA nationals do not require visas (for short trips, also called tourist visas)!
ReplyDeleteI do not agree with blamers. I believe an opportunity to have a warm meal for a reasonable pay should be provided by the company. Companies have a duty of care, by international law. They make money out of those people, for heavens' sake! This "throw-away" campaign must be an extreme reaction to denied healthy food. Yes, this looks ugly, and for starving people even impossible. (Our grandfathers in Siberian prison camps had to work in severe -30-40 degrees of cold with only a 300 grams of bread a day). But denying warm meal to thousands of workers is a question of will and ignorance.
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