Article: Chinese South Africans to be included in definition of 'black people': Court

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 ...

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