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(GHANA) Racism At Novotel? by AfroBlue(m): 5:27pm On May 24, 2012
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(GHANA) Racism At Novotel?



Staff of the four-star Novotel Hotel in Accra have been grumbling about what they say are the discriminatory directives of their new Belgian General Manager, Mr. Marc Frère.

Their grumbles are over what they see as racist directives they have been asked to implement at the hotel following the hotel’s ban on parties by Ghanaian parents to celebrate birthdays of their children at the hotel with the excuse that the GM and his wife swim in the pool and would want to have their privacy when doing so.

Again, while the hotel has barred the large Ghanaian clients of the hotel who troop in to use the hotel’s swimming pool which had hitherto been opened to the public to walk-in, pay and swim anytime, with the same excuse that the GM and his wife swim in the pool and would want to have their privacy when doing so, the pool, staff say, remain open to non-resident white friends of the General Manager who use the facility without even paying.

Management of the hotel have also directed staff to inform inquisitive Ghanaian clients who would seek to find the rationale for the new directives, that swimming at the Hotel’s pool is now based on an UD$800 annual registration fee.

In simple words, if you want to be a user of Novotel’s swimming pool, you would have to fork out $800 (about GHC 1,520) per annum.

Meantime, staff of the house-keeping department in charge of cleaning the hotel’s bedrooms, are also grumbling about the treatment of casual workers who are paid below the minimum wage without their social security being paid.

The workers are paid 0.50 pesewas per room they clean at the hotel.

Hotel staff told this paper the new GM’s directive has negatively impacted the finances of the hotel.

Efforts to speak to Mr. Frère since last Thursday have failed.

He reportedly went on three –day leave after multimedia broadcasting network’s radio station, Asempa FM, broadcast of impending crisis at the hotel. He was billed to resume Wednesday (yesterday) but as of press time we were told he was unavailable for comment.

The hotel’s management was also unwilling to comment officially in his absence.

Workers however told this paper that while Ghanaian workers were celebrating May Day this year, kitchen staff of Novotel went on a sit-down strike because the GM told them he would not allow those who could not participate in the May Day Parade to be given T-shirts with Novotel’s logo's on it because the T-shirts were too expensive to purchase.

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Re: (GHANA) Racism At Novotel? by AfroBlue(m): 5:33pm On May 24, 2012
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Nov 01, 2011 at 1:17pm

'Whites-only' club in Ghana closed down



The Government of Ghana has closed down a ‘racist’ whites-only restaurant turned night club at Osu in Ghana's capital, Accra.

Citi News confirmed the existence of the outfit on Tuesday after it broke as a rumour on social networking site facebook a couple of days ago.

The place is being run by Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited and owned by two Italians, Marco Ranaldi and Salvatore D’azeo. Locals have alleged that the place accepts only whites and blacks are turned away.

According to the deputy minister of Tourism, Mr. Agyenim-Boateng, government decided to close down the place because it was in violation of the laws of Ghana. He added that the facility was registered to be used as a restaurant and not as a club and directed the owners of the facility to acquire the proper license to be able to run the place for that dual purpose.

“We are going to close your place down because you are in violation of our laws," the minister said. "We want you to do what is right and proper. You have to show complete and total respect for our laws."

"You have to go to the Ghana Tourists Authority and get this place licensed. In its current form this obviously is a restaurant, which is veiled as a club. So for now you would not be able to operate the way you have done. ”

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Okuro, a half Ghanaian-half Nigerian, who visited the club recently told Citi News that she was told in the face by the manager of the facility that she could not register as a member of the club because she is not White.

A very furious Okuro is calling on Ghanaians to boycott Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited since according to her the activities of the club smacks of racism which must not be tolerated in Ghana. She has created a facebook page to champion that cause.

She, however, added that she would consider aborting the campaign against the patronage of the place if the owner who made racial comments against her comes out to apologise.

Meanwhile, owners of the Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited have denied that the club is promoting racism.

Owner D’azeo said he is married to a Ghanaian woman and cannot be deemed as a racist, adding that his comment to Elizabeth was only a joke.



By: Kobina Welsing/Citifmonline. com


'Whites-only' club in Ghana closed down
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