SAPS officer not promoted due to race – Johannesburg – Over the next few weeks, Constitutional Court justices will have to decide whether a lower court was correct in finding that a white policewoman was unfairly discriminated against because of her race.
Lieutenant-Colonel Renate Barnard has been fighting her case with the help of trade union Solidarity for more than eight years.
She was turned down twice for a position which involved evaluating and investigating national complaints because white women were over-represented on that salary level.
