Popcru backs the DCS equity plan

"Once we isolate ourselves to the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, we will go back to the apartheid system," said Fields. "We are part of South Africa, we didn't fight for certain groups; we fought for South Africa to be united".

At 55 percent, coloured people form the majority in the Western Cape, but a DSC directive says it will no longer apply regional, but national, demographics, where coloureds are in the minority. The DA says it supports the five Correctional Services officers who are planning to challenge the DCS policy on employment equity, which they say unfairly favours blacks over coloureds.

Labour attorney Michael Bagraim, who is representing the five, claims the Labour Department and the DCS are acting illegally. "This is not in line with what the (Employment Equity) Act says applies to a national department with regional offices." Bagraim said the Labour Department was trying to hide behind the fact that the DCS was a national department.

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