RACIST BOSSES CALL STAFF ‘KAFFIRS’

MBABANE – Directors of a company based in Matsapha stand accused of being racist, calling its employees derogatory names like baboons, monkeys and kaffir.

The word ‘kaffir’ was used in South Africa, during the apartheid era, to refer to a black person.
It was derived from the Arabic term kafir (meaning ‘disbeliever’), which originally had the meaning ‘one without religion’.
The employees claim to be subjected to racial slander every other day.

One even alleged that the racist attacks could be sparked be just about anything and a worker need not be at fault to be subjected to the humiliation.
To protect the workers from reprisals they will not be identified and requested that any particular incident which might lead to their identification be not put on record.

The name of the company has been deliberately withheld as investigations are still ongoing.
Even though one interviewed company director rubbished the allegations, the acting Labour Commissioner confirmed that his department was actively investigating the allegations following reports of this nature from workers.

Wonder Mkhonta of the Swaziland Processing Refining and Allied Workers Union (SPRAWU) described the situation at the company as a bloodshed waiting to unfold since employees were failing to cope with the alleged daily trauma.

Mkhonta said this had been going on for a long time wherein at times some employees would even report the verbal attacks to the police.
Having had enough of the racial abuse in the hands of their employer, some employees, last week, personally took it upon themselves to report the abuse to the office of the Labour Commissioner.

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