White workers at SA firm strike over black share scheme

Workers at Sasol's South African operations are to strike over a new shares ownership scheme. [Reuters]

South Africa’s mainly white Solidarity union will begin a strike today at petrochemicals firm Sasol over a share ownership scheme offered exclusively to black staff.

Under black economic empowerment rules, South African companies are required to meet quotas on black ownership, employment and procurement as part of a drive to reverse decades of exclusion under apartheid.