South African Government using race as a criterion for COVID-19 assistance

While everyone in South Africa is being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, there will be people who will receive help based on their race, and some excluded because of their race. This after the South African government decided to use race (B-BBEE) as a deciding factor in who to assist in the tourism sector.

Furthermore, this week the Pretoria High Court ruled in favour of the department of tourism using race as a criterion when providing Covid-19 coronavirus relief to tourism enterprises under distress.

Questions around fairness of business relief fund:
https://www.iol.co.za/thepost/community-news/questions-around-fairness-of-business-relief-fund-46824585

Relief fund for restaurants and hotels guided by BEE laws not skin colour, says miniter:
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/389919/relief-fund-for-restaurants-and-hotels-guided-by-bee-laws-not-skin-colour-minister/

'Perfectly rational' to use B-BBEE levels to distribute R200m relief, says tourism minister:
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/perfectly-rational-to-use-b-bbee-levels-to-distribute-r200m-relief-says-tourism-minister-47324919?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

High Court in favour of tourism department using race as a criterion when providing Covid-19 relief:
https://city-press.news24.com/News/high-court-in-favour-of-tourism-department-using-race-as-a-criterion-when-providing-covid-19-relief-20200430

Afriforum To Appeal Against Ruling That Department Of Tourism Is Allowed To Use Race As Criterion When Allocating Relief:
https://www.afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-to-appeal-against-ruling-that-department-of-tourism-is-allowed-to-use-race-as-criterion-when-allocating-relief/

The Tourism Relief Fund Judgement with Mark Oppenheimer:
https://youtu.be/pfa4ltM1kFo

FULL RULING:
https://www.afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Solidarity-and-Afriforum-and-Minister-of-Tourism.pdf

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