AfriForum has voiced its support for Norton Rose Fulbright SA’s legal challenge against the government’s new legal sector code.
The law firm has approached the courts to block the implementation of the code, which seeks to increase black participation in South Africa’s legal industry.
The firm argues that the code places unreasonable and impractical demands on large law firms.
AfriForum’s Head of Public Relations, Ernst van Zyl says the organisation opposes the use of what it calls “racially discriminatory legislation” to achieve transformation goals.
“AfriForum’s stance is that you shouldn’t be using racially discriminatory legislation to try and reach any goal in South Africa. Because racially discriminatory legislation in itself, in principle, is wrong. There are many other ways and means that can be followed to increase black participation in the legal sector.
“But increasing an already large laundry list of racially discriminatory legislation in this country is not the way to go. That’s only going to increase the level of race obsession that we see.”
