Court postpones Sasol’s water pollution case to November
The case will now be heard in the Evander Regional Court.
The water pollution case against Sasol was heard again in the Secunda Magistrate’s Court on August 7 and postponed to November 20.
The case moves to the Evander Regional Court.
This court case came after a former Sasol employee, Ian Erasmus, took the company to court last September for water pollution.
While Erasmus worked at Sasol as a senior process controller in 2005, he reported to his managers several times that a large valve was leaking, polluting the water.
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He claimed they did nothing, so he sent emails to senior management.
Erasmus then contacted the company’s ethics line and believed his senior managers had intimidated him since then.
Erasmus said he was victimised and eventually suspended in 2017.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment heard about the matter and opened a criminal case against Sasol.
