Ministers misquote the law for votes

Columnists
The Minister of Industry and Trade, Welshman Ncube claimed in a recent Sunday Mail report that the law reserves the retail sector for indigenous businesspeople, not foreigners.  

This is absolute nonsense and as a lawyer,  he should know this.

 

The third schedule to the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (general) regulations has no effect. It was apparently designed to be brought into effect by a Section 21 but no such section exists!

Both minister Ncube and the Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, Saviour Kasukuwere who also misrepresents the effect of the legislation, are trying to attract votes.

M Nichols, Bulawayo.