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The recent employment equity study in Cape Town pointing to
under-representation of black professionals in city businesses, confirms
what we have always maintained that lack of transformation can only serve to
polarise race relations in that part of the country.

In terms of the Sabie Surtee and Martin Hall study, Cape Town is seen to be
hostile to Coloureds, Africans and Indians while white people are still
being appointed and promoted at rates suggesting continued discrimination of
black people.

As a matter of policy, the African National Congress (ANC) is committed to
redressing decades of inequality at workplace created by apartheid. Our
mission continues to be the fundamental transformation of the South African
economy in order to empower black people, eliminate poverty and the extreme
inequalities generated by the apartheid system.

We firmly believe that only productive employment opportunities for our
people, earning a living wage, can ensure a balanced South African economic
development.

The ANC strongly condemns the practice of discrimination by Cape Town
businesses, which has led to 65 percent of top and senior management
appointments or promotions going to whites in 2008, but only 10 percent
going to black people. This is - despite Cape Town being the home of black
majority, particularly from the Coloured community.

We call on the Democratic Alliance, which constitutionally rules that part
of the country at city and provincial level to avoid paying lip service when
it comes to transformation at workplace. If it is indeed, led by true
democrats, it should be in the forefront of a campaign to ensure that
businesses implement employment equity and that Cape Town ceases to become a
pariah city compared to the rest of the country.