Impractical implications are wide-reaching
SOUTH Africans must conclude from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks last week on BEE that the ANC government has learnt nothing from the catastrophic failure of race-based empowerment policy, while ignoring better alternatives.
Empowerment remains a critical challenge: South Africa’s high levels of joblessness, poverty and poor education outcomes point to the real needs of millions of citizens whose hopes of a better life have been, at best, poorly addressed by the race-based measures the ANC has stubbornly persisted in applying for more than two decades.
A ready alternative
