South Africa Publishes Steep Race Quotas for Jobs, Fines for Non-Compliance

The Department of Labor and Employment of South Africa published a set of racial quotas this week, the strict rules in 18 different industries and threaten companies with strong fines if they do not comply.

Businesstech, a South African publication, Thorsday (original emphasis) reported:

The laws apply to the companies that used 50 or more people and require that their labor forces reflect the demography of the country at all levels.

These employees include black (African, color and Indian), female and dyads [sic] Workers.

Not doing so could see Employers face fines of up to R1.5 million or 2% of the billing and have their employment capital certificates, essential for state contracts, controlled.

Companies will have some limited capacity to appeal strict racial objectives, described by The citizen:

It is stipulated that companies implement a structure in which there is a “designated group”-women and not white composition or around 90% in 15 or 18 sectors. Of the 18 sectors, 11 have a designated group objective or around 95% for qualified technical support.

The National Association of Employers of South Africa and Saxiga has said that they take the government to the courts because the rules are “little stittizable, illegal and harmful.”

The press release of the South African government on the subject could not be accessed, since the relevant website seemed to be down.

The Trump administration has reduced aid to South Africa about what it says is the abuse of White South Africans, partly Afrikaners and farmers, to whom the United States government has offered asylum.

President Donald Trump said earlier this month: “They have some bad things in South Africa … Many bad things are happening in South Africa. False news should be looking at him. I don’t want to report it.”