Racism complaint against Rajesh Gupta laid with SA’s Human Rights Commission
The South African Human Rights Commission confirmed on Thursday that Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation lodged a complaint of racism against Rajesh Gupta with the Gauteng office this week.Commission spokesperson Gail Smith said: "The matter is currently being assessed and thereafter the commission‚ in line with its complaint-handling procedure‚ will make a decision on how best to proceed having reviewed the substance of the complaint."LHR and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation approached the ANC to lead the complaint against Gupta for allegedly "referring to his employees as monkeys and causing them much distress", but the party refused.Requesting the ANC’s support‚ they wrote: "The ANC has taken highly commendable leadership of previous similar cases ... As you recall‚ the ANC was the complainant in the case against Penny Sparrow for use of the same racist terms as those used, in this instance, by Rajesh Gupta." However, the ruling party told executive dire...
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