EDITORIAL: Legitimising xenophobia
Clause in new Gauteng Township Economic Development Draft Bill stipulates that business activities within townships would be reserved for SA citizens, or those with permanent residence
08 October 2020 - 05:00
Very rarely do lunatic-fringe populist rules arrive through the front door. More often than not, they creep in through the back entrance, with all sorts of reassurances and platitudes of even-handedness.
This seems to be the template for a clearly xenophobic, and possibly anticonstitutional, clause in the new Gauteng Township Economic Development Draft Bill, released last month...
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