White workers at Sasol launch 'go-slow' ahead of Thursday strike over black staff scheme

Workers from South Africa's mainly white Solidarity union started a go-slow protest at petrochemicals firm Sasol over a share scheme offered exclusively to black staff and will launch a full strike on Thursday.

The Solidarity union also said it will file a complaint to U.S. regulators over Sasol's "discriminative" black share scheme.

The company is a leader in technology that converts coal and gas to fuel and also operates in the United States,

"We have a staggered industrial action. Today, we have a go-slow. Our 6,300 members will carry out their duties but in a slow manner. We plan to ramp up to a full-blown strike on Thursday," Dirk Hermann, Solidarity's chief executive said.

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