Two more join Sekunjalo banks application
A former senior government official and a former unionist have joined the Sekunjalo group's application against major banks in the Western Cape Equality Court.
An IoL report says former Deputy DG at the Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, Siphokazi Ndudane, and former Fedusa secretary-general Dennis George, have filed affidavits in support of the Sekunjalo action, brought by Gardee Godrich Attorneys.
Last week they filed 288 pages of court papers alleging systematic racial profiling used by the banking sector.
In the court papers, Gardee’s clients said pending the inclusion of the intervening parties as complainants in the case, they also intended to make an application declaring that the termination of their bank facilities was ‘arbitrary and unlawful.’
They also said banks should be prohibited from enforcing discriminatory policies such as unbanking customers on the basis of purported reputational risk, and want the practice to be declared unfair discrimination in terms of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act.
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