DA Court Challenge to Employment Equity Act Race Quotas

Watch as the DA fights for fair access to jobs in court. The DA is challenging rigid quotas for employment equity that threaten fair access to jobs and economic growth. Our court action argues that the Employment Equity Amendment Act discriminates unfairly and unconstitutionally. While Section 9.2 of the Constitution allows fair discrimination to achieve redress, such “discrimination” has to meet the benchmark of fairness set out in Section 9. This draconian amendment Act falls far short of this benchmark. It is grossly unfair and gives totalitarian powers of social engineering to the Minister of Labour, who will be able to set rigid national targets for every economic sector, without any regard to the context of specific firms, and impose extremely heavy fines and the risk of criminal conviction for failure to meet them.