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Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)

Labour department denies racial quotas in Employment Equity Amendment Act

The Democratic Alliance, which has launched a court challenge to the amended Act, says it cannot have a place in democratic South Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa.(@PresidencyZA/X)

Ramaphosa: Racial redress is not stunting growth

The president said the low growth was a function of the slow transfer of the means of production to black South Africans

Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)

New equity targets are constitutional, counsel for labour minister tells court

The ministry sought to counter the DA’s argument that the targets amount to unfair discrimination

The DA’s federal council chairperson, Helen Zille, at a press briefing on Monday. (@Our_DA/X)

Employment equity quotas will shred jobs, DA says

The Democratic Alliance is challenging the Employment Equity Amendment Act in court, saying it violates constitutional protections against unfair racial quotas

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Editorial: Budget 3.0 and another coalition court battle

It is high time for policy reckoning in the GNU

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has lambasted the Transformation Fund proposed by the ANC as a sophisticated mechanism of ‘looting’ and economic capture that will only benefit the politically-connected elite.
(Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images)

DA to fight employment equity law in court

The final quotas make it virtually impossible for coloured and Indian workers to find or keep a job, argues the party

With labour seemingly sidelined in talks affecting the economy’s future, big business isn’t as hard done by as some believe. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Some more equal than others in South Africa’s economic tug of war

With labour seemingly sidelined in talks affecting the economy’s future, big business isn’t as hard done by as some believe