DA to appeal judgment that race, gender can be used as criteria for Covid-19 small business funding

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The DA says it has decided to file an appeal against a judgment on Friday which dismissed its application against the government applying race and gender among the criteria for Covid-19 relief funding for small businesses.

Small business development minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni established two funds to provide financial relief to small, medium and micro enterprises amid the Covid-19 pandemic - the Debt Finance Scheme and the Business Growth Resilience Fund.

“By contrast, there is a substantive requirement, namely that the employees must be 70% South Africans and then there appears the statement ‘priority will be given to business owned by women, youth and people with disabilities'.” In its order, the court ruled that the criteria employed by the minister for determining which people or entities are entitled to receive funds under the scheme and the fund are reviewed and set aside and declared unlawful.

 

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