AfriForum and Solidarity managed to deal a final blow to the Department of Tourism\u2019s discriminatory Tourism Fund. This comes after this department had appealed against the 2021 Supreme Court of Appeal\u2019s 2021 ruling in favour of AfriForum and Solidarity in terms of which the use of black economic empowerment (BEE) as criteria for granting relief from the Tourism Equity Fund was unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, the then Minister of Tourism, introduced the Equity Fund in 2020 as an institution that would only allocate loans and grants to businesses with at least 51% black ownership. According to AfriForum and Solidarity, the allocation of relief funds on the basis of race is unreasonable. The Constitutional Court confirmed this today and declared this action of the department as unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe fund\u2019s criteria were downright racist. The government may try to disguise it as transformation, but it has shown its true colours long ago. It was extremely reprehensible to exploit the damage caused to the tourism sector by the government\u2019s unreasonable Covid-19 restrictions to discriminate against people on top of it. South African citizens are sick and tired of having to witness how the government\u2019s race ideology is crippling the country\u2019s economy. This judgment sends an important message to the government that race can no longer serve as a trump card that takes precedence over all other interests,\u201d Anton van der Bijl, Solidarity\u2019s Deputy Chief Executive for Legal Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis judgment is a hard blow for the South African government in its battle to protect its \u2018right\u2019 to discriminate on the basis of race,\u201d said Ernst van Zyl, AfriForum\u2019s Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
According to AfriForum and Solidarity, this is an important victory as the government\u2019s ongoing obsession with race and representivity still is, in the opinion of these institutions, one of the main obstacles to a thriving economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday\u2019s judgment is a major victory but the legacy of the government\u2019s devotedness to race above all is still visible in countless state institutions such as Eskom and to a large extent it is contributing to the current crisis in the country. However, today\u2019s judgment lays a strong foundation for further battles and litigation,\u201d Van der Bijl concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter more than 100 years of racially discriminatory policies which continue into the 21ste century, it is high time that this appalling practice is abolished and that grasping at straws to justify its continuation in the present, as the government has attempted to do in this instance, is stopped,\u201d Van Zyl concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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