Disgruntled Durban South communities have demanded transparency about Engen’s plan to include them in their corporate social investment programme.
Wentworth, Bluff, Jacobs, Merebank, Lamontville and Umlazi residents demonstrated outside Engine Refinery south of Durban demanding transparency and fairness regarding community participation in economic opportunitiesDisgruntled Durban South communities have demanded transparency about Engen’s plan to include them in their corporate social investment programme.
“They [Engen] say they will communicate with the JC, which is supposed to represent the community, but from 2020 they’ve never come once to respond to us as the community. So who do they represent?” asked Reggie Smith, a COBTU-aligned community member. They also demanded employment of general workers and semi-skilled workers be done through them, while a 70-30% ratio should apply in other disciplines.
Reggie Smith for Changing Our Behaviour To Unite handing over the memorandum to James Nyawere, head of transformation and stakeholder engagement at Engen.At the time, Engen’s national stakeholder engagement manager Ronald Chauke said the company would hold a meeting with representatives of the joint committee and communicate what was discussed and agreed to in a meeting set for the next day.
Smith said they didn’t understand Engen’s reluctance to work with them because it would ensure smooth relations between them and the community for their CSI projects.
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