DA’s anti-BEE Covid-19 funding appeal application dismissed via TheCitizen_News
The opposition party’s application for leave to appeal against government’s use of transformation criteria in the allocation of Covid-19 relief funding has been dealt a second huge blow.
The DA’s court action came in response to Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s establishment of two Covid-19 relief funds for small, medium and micro enterprises – the Debt Finance Scheme and the Business Growth Resilience Fund – and the decision to use transformation criteria to determine who could access these funds.
Government could not use the pandemic “opportunistically, to further the objects of economic empowerment,” he went on. “A balance between the rights of the party which was successful before the court a quo and the rights of the losing party seeking leave to appeal need to be established so that the absence of a realistic chance of succeeding on appeal dictates that the balance must be struck in favour of the party which was initially successful,” he explained.
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