Kudos to tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. It is good to know that even in a national crisis we keep the Verwoerdian ideal of group identity alive. Some 70% of the Covid-19 lockdown support programmes announced on Wednesday will go to black-owned businesses. Will the owners have to undergo the pencil test?

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