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Article: Chinese South Africans to be included in definition of 'black people': Court
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 18, 2008
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Chinese South Africans to be included in definition of 'black
people': Court
JOHANNESBURG, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Pretoria High Court on
Wednesday granted a landmark ruling that Chinese South Africans are
to be included in the definition of "black people" in legislation
designed to benefit previously disadvantaged groups.
Judge Cynthia Pretorius granted an order under the terms of which
Chinese South Africans are included in the definition of "black
people" in the Broad-Based Economic Empowerment Act and the
Employment Equity Act, designed to redress economic imbalances under
white-minority rule, or apartheid, which ended in 1994.
Both laws benefit the country's black, colored and Indian ...