Is Eskom, at heart, xenophobic? Does it discriminate against foreigners in its operating policies? Or is someone from Grindrod management not telling the truth? These questions arise from a new labour court judgment dealing with the sacking of three foreign heavy vehicle drivers employed by Grindrod Fuelogic. They were dismissed in May 2014 after Grindrod said it had received an e-mail from Eskom saying that, with immediate effect, "no foreigners" would be allowed to deliver fuel to Eskom’s Ankerlig site in Atlantis, Cape Town.

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