Solidarity said it will ask the labour court to find that the total exclusion of a particular group of employees based on their race amounted to unfair discrimination.
Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann said its members gave the union a mandate to intensify the action against Sasol‚ which led to the decision to stage the protest march and to go to court.
“It is a pity that we have to go to court about something that so obviously cannot be morally justified‚” said Hermann.
He said this form of racial exclusion also takes place at other companies‚ which is why the union decided to present a memorandum to the JSE as well.
“My message to Sasol today is quite clear: it is abnormal to exclude people on grounds of race‚” Hermann said in a twitter message.