Solidarity
AfriForum: Govt says private sector not prevented from buying vaccines
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AfriForum believes Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has had more than enough time to provide answers regarding the vaccine implementation.
The groups laid a criminal complaint against Malema for the comments he made at a rally in the Free State on Sunday.
The unions are preparing to file contempt of court papers after the state arms manufacturer missed a deadline to pay by last Friday.
The state-owned company, which makes equipment ranging from armoured vehicles to missiles, has struggled to pay staff salaries due to a liquidity crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement, government said that the National Transport Movement, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, the Aviation Union of Southern Africa and Solidarity had stepped forward to take up the deal.
The organisation said businesses such as Denel were not generating income due to the lockdown, leading to workers losing out on income.
Mapule Mahlulo attempts to help ease AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel's pain by diagnosing his condition - acute chronic B-BBEE-phobia.
On Friday the Constitutional Court dismissed Solidarity's application for urgent direct access to the court to challenge the High Court ruling on the use of race as a criterion in the allocation of the COVID-19 relief fund by the tourism department.
On Friday the Constitutional Court dismissed trade union Solidarity’s urgent application for direct access to the court saying it was not in the best interest of justice to hear it at this stage.
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane welcomed the ruling by the ConCourt and urged Afriforum and Solidarity to allow the department to continue with its work.
Did they just not read the B-BBEE legislation, asks Mapule Mahlulo.
Some of the lockdown regulations which have been challenged with court processes or threats of legal action included the ban on the sale of readymade meals, liquor, and cigarettes, among others.
Solidarity said that Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni changed her tune on her undertaking that BEE was not a requirement to qualify for relief funds.
The union said the criminal complaint, which included perjury, was laid at the Lyttelton police station in Pretoria.
The Pretoria High Court has ruled that consideration of race when awarding the Tourism Relief Fund will not create an insurmountable advantage for black-owned businesses over those that are white-owned.
The groups took the Department of Tourism to court arguing the requirement for the relief fund was discriminatory.
AfriForum and Solidarity have argued that the disaster management regulations confine her power to give directions to matters relating to COVID-19 and does not include empowerment goals.
Applications for the fund, which awards businesses a grant capped at R50,000, closes on 31 May.