Andile Ngcaba sues Dimension Data for R441 Million

by Johnse Na Andile Ngcaba

Andile Ngcaba is locked in a legal battle with Dimension Data, a subsidiary of the Japanese company NTT Holdings. The former chairman of Dimension Data Middle East & Africa, Ngcaba has filed a lawsuit against the company on grounds of racial discrimination. The R441 million lawsuit is seeking R261.3 million in damages that were not paid to Ngcaba and R170 million for racial discrimination. In addition to this, the lawsuit also seeks R10 million for the racial slurs and insults that Andile Ngcaba had to face during his tenure in the company.

 

The issue dates back to 2016 when Andile Ngcaba, who was working with the company at the time, received information that the senior executives and other staff members were being given an incentive scheme. Meanwhile Ngcaba, a senior company functionary, was denied the incentives.

 

Andile Ngcaba decided to address the matter in a labour dispute resolution body in 2017 but lost the case against the company. He had stepped down as the chairman of Dimension Data Middle East & Africa in early 2017. Ngcaba decided to file the R441 million lawsuit in a court in Johannesburg.

 

Referring to his exclusion from the bonuses as institutional racism, Ngcaba is of the firm opinion that his fight is for justice, and to expose the issues of unequal pay and discrimination at Dimension Data. Ngcaba is determined to take the fight to the high court and seek damages for the unfair treatment meted out to him by the company.

 

An anti-apartheid activist, Andile Ngcaba is a prominent South African personality. He has worked under President Nelson Mandela as the Director General of Communications and Post-Master General from 1994 to 2003. In 2004, he took over as the chairman of Dimension Data Middle East & Africa and remained in this position until early 2017.

 

As expected, Dimension Data has denied the allegations, but the company was also involved in an issue with Internet service provider iSAT in 2019. The company was sued by iSAT over a system failure. Dimension Data had admitted that it had failed to maintain its CVM solution for nearly four years.

 

Andile Ngcaba’s lawsuit will be heard in court on November 10.

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