To serve all cultures and religions at whose cost? Because these certifications are access barriers placed on black businesses, which now can’t get a contract even where they are majority without going through muslim and Jewish gate keepers at their own cost. What equivalent accommodation do we see in majority jewish and muslim for our communities when you lot can’t even show us the courtesy of learning our languages in OUR country?

Let me explain this for the last time with an example😭 The majority of patients in Khayelitsha hospital are non-muslim and Xhosa. So for example, If I as a caterer want to serve umleqwa, I now can’t serve the food and meat my people eat because a muslim board will say it’s not from a halaal certified butcher or fails some sort of standard they have. This is not about halaal, apply it Kosher too for all I care, it’s about social, economic, and political currency that minorities enjoy in South Africa at the expense of the majority. We shouldn’t have to explain that to so called “educated” people. By having to buy from a halaal certified butcher to serve umleqwa where does that leave my local Xhosa suppliers that cannot afford that or simply don’t know how to comply to those specific standards? Who must I now buy from and pay to do business with my own people?