Afrikaner rights group AfriForum and their union partner Solidarity have welcomed Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane’s decision to suspend the Tourism Equity Fund’s activities until they have had a meeting with her, after complaints that the fund’s criteria were racist.
This came after the two institutions sent an urgent letter to the minister about the fund, which aimed at only funding black-owned tourism businesses.
The institutions complained that all tourism businesses had been hit hard by restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19.
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