Potshot taken at commissioner

ACCUSED: RACIST TWEET ALLEGEDLY BY ‘MAMPURU’

CCMA is looking into the matter but believes the alleged e-mail is fake.

The Council for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration (CCMA) yesterday disputed the veracity of an e-mail with racist content, alleged to have been sent by one of its senior commissioners.

“[A] CCMA commissioner at Benoni mistakenly sent an e-mail to his colleagues, see the content below,” wrote Mampuru Mampuru on Twitter. According to his profile, he is an “EFF GP command team member responsible for transport”. “This is the same racist who kicked me out on a sitting because I question his attitude towards the workers. The bastard is an open racist.”

Requests to Mampuru on various platforms for the original e-mail have gone unanswered.

“Let them/him disputes it, I will expose them/him further here on my account [sic],” Mampuru tweeted.

The tweet circulated to his more than 7 000 followers is a picture of what appears to be a screengrab. Mampuru purports it to be an e-mail with the subject line, Game.

It read: “Dannie I’m still here at CCMA but I will be back today. I have to sit here and listen to these corrupt monkeys try and lie their way out of trouble. Honestly I don’t understand these people who don’t appreciate that they have jobs now they want to act like victims wasting time. My Best Bernard van Eck senior commissioner CCMA [sic].”

CCMA spokesperson Annah Mokgadinyane said: “... the CCMA has already initiated an investigation into the allegations.”

“The preliminary report indicates the e-mail is fake because the recipient is unknown to the CCMA and the commissioner concerned did not preside over a Game matter that day.”

Van Eck vociferously denied any involvement in the e-mail to The Citizen Online and Mokgadinyane noted he had offered all his technology for investigation.

“Should the outcome be contrary to the preliminary report, the necessary action will be taken,” Mokgadinyane said. –