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Moneyweb reports that Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has welcomed the Constitutional Court’s (ConCourt’s) dismissal on Friday of the joint Solidarity/AfriForum application to appeal and set aside the use of broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) criteria as part of the department’s R200 million Covid-19 Tourism Relief Fund for small businesses.
The court concluded that there were “insufficient grounds raised for a direct appeal to this court on an urgent basis.” Solidarity and AfriForum took their fight to the ConCourt last week after losing the initial case brought before the Pretoria High Court late in April. AfriForum, however, said over the weekend that the battle was not over, and it now planned to take the case to the Supreme Court of Appeal. Solidarity, AfriForum and the Democratic Alliance (DA) have objected to the use of B-BBEE criteria being used in determining which businesses should benefit from some of government’s Covid-19 relief funds, arguing that all business were facing financial fallout from the impact of the pandemic. Kubayi-Ngubane noted that more than 13,000 applications had been received thus far for support from the Tourism Relief Fund. “The [Tourism] Department has already started processing payments to beneficiaries, and it is important to note that this includes both black and white business owners,” she indicated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Suren Naidoo at Moneyweb
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