Cape Town – Cosatu in the Western Cape has called for more than half of the white senior civil servants in the provincial government to be sacked – within just one year of the election.
“The sunset clauses in relation to jobs are gone, and so should continued white preference be gone,” Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich told the Cape Argus on Wednesday.
He explained that if the ANC won control of the provincial government in the coming election, this was what Cosatu would call on its alliance partner, the ANC, to implement.
“The most recent figures we have are that senior management at the provincial government is made up of at least 57 percent whites,” he said of the employment equity intervention.
Whites made up only about 16 percent of the population.
According to the 2011 census, the percentage of coloured people in the Western Cape dropped from 53.9 percent in 2001 to 49.6 percent in 2011, and the white population from 18.4 percent to 16 percent, while the black population increased from 26.7 percent to 33.4 percent.
“That means whites are over-represented in terms of the demographic of the Western Cape – so roughly half the whites in senior positions in provincial government would have to go,” Ehrenreich charged…
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