LAWSUIT AGAINST UNION DISMISSED

A FORMER Cosatu boss has lost his bid to force the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) to pay him about R1.9 million for axing him after finding out he was a foreigner.

Gift Sandile Ndwandwe, the right-hand man of former Satawu general secretary Zenzo Mahlangu, was fired last year after the union discovered he was a Zimbabwean who had fraudulently obtained his South African identity document.

Ndwandwe argued that had Satawu not terminated his contract he would have remained employed as provincial secretary for two more years and 11 months.

According to papers filed in the Labour Court, Ndwandwe sought damages pf almost R1.9m against Satawu for a breach of contract.

Labour Court Judge Belinda Whitcher dismissed Ndwandwe’s application on May 10, finding that it could not be said Satawu committed a fundamental breach which entitled him to invoke contractual remedies. |