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“Mr. Jimmy Manyi’s analyses of the personnel composition ofgovernment’s communication service (GCIS) and his statement that whites and Indians are over-represented are selective and therefore wrong. Manyi only focuses on the senior management levels where the smallest number of people is employed but he ignores in totality the racial composition of workers on the lower levels,” Adv. Anton Alberts, Parliamentary spokesperson on Labour for the Freedom Front Plus, says.

“It is this selective use of the realities which lead to the ANC government following a policy which discriminates against minorities. It is as a result of this policy that a racial ideologist such as Manyi can say that Brown people have to move because there are too many of them in the Western Cape. When will he be saying that the Afrikaners should move out of Pretoria because there are too many of them concentrated in that city?” Adv. Alberts asked.

In a reply to a question on the racial composition of all levels in the public service, posed in Parliament by the FF Plus to the minister of Labour, the minister acknowledged that there is an under-representation of minorities on the following employment levels:

• Top management: White and brown women are under-represented;
• Senior Management: Brown people are under-represented;
• Skilled technical and junior management level: Brown people and Indian men are under-represented;
• Semi-skilled level: White and Indian people are under-represented;
• Unskilled level: Whites and Indians are under-represented.

It is therefore clear that the government still has a lot of work to offer minorities equal opportunities in the public service. Manyi and the ANC government should apply the Employment Equity Act in full. The FF Plus will be asking the minister of Labour which measures he had put in place through which the public service as a whole and Manyi in particular would be able to address the under-representation of minorities in the public service.