Shape up or ship out, workers told

I would understand if I was sick and had diabetes perhaps, but I am suddenly told that I am too fat to continue working

Sipho Ndaba* fails to understand why his employer wants him gone because he is “overweight”, something that was never an issue before the outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The 30-year-old artisan/skilled worker at Sibanye-Stillwater in Rustenburg said he was given three options that would all leave him – together with those with comorbidities and those