🔴 BREAKING: SA Government instructs employers to use repealed 1950 legislation to classify employees by race

South Africa’s Department of Labour has instructed employers to apply the Population Registration Act of 1950 for racial classification 🧵

Here's the context ⬇️ Context:

In a letter to @NeasaNews on 5 December, the Department confirmed that the Population Registration Act of 1950 should form part of the criteria for determining the race of employees.

This, despite the Act being repealed in 1991.

This is unlawful.

🔴 BREAKING: Minister of Health attempts to halt court challenges to NHI

The Minister of Health wants to pause all court challenges to the NHI Act while continuing to implement it.

Should the court process be paused, NHI implementation should also be paused.

Here's why 🧵 What's Happening?

The Minister of Health is trying to halt six constitutional challenges against the NHI Act, claiming it's to "conserve public resources"

They want to stop judicial scrutiny while NHI implementation continues unchecked.

This is an abuse of process.

🔴 BREAKING: Sakeliga Launches Court Case to Stop BEE Requirements for International Airlines

The International Air Services Council (IASC) is unlawfully imposing race-based licensing conditions on international air carriers.

Here's why we're taking the IASC to court 🧵 What's Happening?

The IASC has been demanding B-BBEE credentials and transformation commitments from international airlines seeking to operate routes to and from South Africa.

This is unlawful, absurd, and threatening to isolate South Africa from travel and trade.

🔴 BREAKING: SA's first case of expropriation without compensation for "social housing" is heading to court.

The City of Ekurhuleni expropriated a development property worth millions and paid "nil" (zero, R0.00) compensation.

Here's the details 🧵 Background:

In 2019, Portion 406 of the Farm Driefontein was expropriated on the grounds of being "in the public interest."

The former executive mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mzwandile Masina, said they were doing this to “test the limits of Section 25 of the Constitution”.

🔴UPDATE: Covid-19 Lockdown & Ministers Contempt of Court

Sakeliga is making progress in our five-year pursuit to obtain lockdown transparency from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). During the lockdowns from 2020-2022, the government made decisions with far-reaching and devastating effects.

Many communities, families, individuals and businesses who were faced with total restrictions on their livelihoods require transparency about decision-making processes.

🔴 UPDATE: BEE case against the Property Sector Regulator 🏢

In a significant development, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition has withdrawn his opposition to our court case.

What this means for the property sector… ⬇️ What Does This Mean? (2/7)

This now leaves the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) as the case’s only active opponent.

➡️ The Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation has already indicated they will abide by the decision of the court.

🔴 UPDATE: Employment Race Quotas planned for end-March 2025

The state intends to force employers to hire according to its strict quotas based on race, sex, and disability.

This proposes absurd social engineering and micro-management.

What you need to know 🧵 The Department of Labour recently disclosed that the long-awaited Employment Equity Amendment Act quotas would be announced in March 2025

The first round of quotas are supposedly to be met progressively within five years.

After which, they will be made even more stringent.

🔴 UPDATE: Is Minister Steenhuisen sticking to his predecessor’s AgriBEE policy or not?

The minister of agriculture finally held a press conference - but failed to clear up a critical question Sakeliga and others have put to him.

Sakeliga’s response 🧵 The Key Question: Will Mr Steenhuisen uphold his department’s existing AgriBEE policy, or will he withdraw it and set out a new, positive vision for his department?

The AgriBEE policy is a standing internal policy to expand BEE requirements with the explicit goal to make BEE compulsory across the agricultural sector.

🔴BREAKING: Sakeliga launches new BEE case resisting state overreach in the Property Sector

In 2024, the industry regulator pressured property businesses to comply with unjust BEE demands or lose their operating licences - a stark example of 3rd-wave BEE.

Here’s the update ⬇️ Last year, the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) started refusing to issue Fidelity Fund certificates for property sector businesses not participating in BEE, barring them from operating.

Sakeliga threatened litigation and the PPRA was forced to back down.

This new case seeks to extend this tactical BEE rollback by having certain sections in the Property Practitioners Act (2022) and its regulations declared unconstitutional and invalid.

🔴 BREAKING: Financial Services Transformation Council (FSTC) exposed for overstepping authority on BEE demands

PAIA Records obtained by Sakeliga show that yet another state bureaucratic body has been trying to intimidate businesses to do BEE without the authority to enforce it. In March, the FSTC issued demands to all financial service providers to report on their BEE status and plans.

Sakeliga requested the FSTC indicate to the industry where it derives the authority to make such demands.

After being forced by the Information Regulator to respond, the FSTC has now admitted to Sakeliga and the industry that it is not entitled to make such demands.

NUUT: DLAMINI-ZUMA SAAK ⬇️

Die minister het Sakeliga se verlengde sperdatum van 6 Januarie 2023 misgeloop en bly in gebreke om aan die hofbevel van Nov 2022 te voldoen om aan Sakeliga haar besluitnemingsrekords oor Covid-rampbestuur te oorhandig. Ons prokureurs sal nou voortgaan met 'n hofaansoek om die minister aan minagting van die hof skuldig te laat verklaar.

DLAMINI-ZUMA UPDATE ⬇️

Having missed Sakeliga’s extended deadline of 6 Jan 2023, the minister remains in breach of the Nov 2022 court order to hand Sakeliga her state-of-disaster decision records.

We have instructed our attorneys to proceed with a contempt of court application. While obvious that Dlamini-Zuma is frustrating Sakeliga and the court, it is a legal requirement that we prove her contempt with a distinct court application. This is a necessary step in the process of forcing the minister to either reveal the records or face jail-time.

LATEST: Ending the State of Disaster is compulsory – it must not continue by stealth

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Govt wants to entrench powers tolerated only temporarily under the State of Disaster. Sakeliga will oppose attempts to make such sweeping powers permanent.

READ: sakeliga.co.za/en/ending-the-… Sakeliga believes that instead of restoring normality, the government is endeavouring to permanently entrench State of Disaster powers to force lockdowns, travel restrictions, vaccine compulsion, mask compulsion, and other invasive ‘public health’ measures.

This is unacceptable.

Vandag by Sakeliga: ‘n openbare saakbespreking, met gasspreker prof Hennie Rossouw.

Op grond van “nuwe” en “bepalende” argumente aangevoer deur Sakeliga in die hoë hof in Pretoria kan plaaslike sakegemeenskappe waarskynlik miljoene rande se regskoste teen Eskom spaar. #Eskom Piet le Roux: Sakeliga het in die Resilient-saak as vriend van die hof betrokke geraak met die doel om nuwe regspraak te help skep wat op nasionale vlak gemeenskappe (en veral sakelui) toegepas kan word.