GOOD Statement by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General
The fact that the ANC has grossly manipulated Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policies to favour a small circle of its friends is disgraceful and wasteful, but that does not mean the national imperative to transform ownership of the economy should be abandoned.
There have been some positive BBBEE initiatives, such as the transfer of company shares to employees, but these successes have been overwhelmed by a tide of state ineptitude and corruption.
The implementation of BBBEE must be fixed with strong guard rails to curb corruption. Reducing colour-coded inequality is a task that must continue.
What the DA Anti-BEE Bill seeks to do is to use the ANC’s integrity lapses as a tool to retain ownership of the economy in the hands of apartheid beneficiaries, while being charitable to poor people. It denies the undeniable links between poverty and race, which appears to be part of a broader strategy of apartheid denial.
It is another piece in an unsustainable DA, Solidariteit, Afriforum, FF+ strategy to retain land ownership, access to decent health care, and education in the hands of the privileged few.
The solution to the mismanagement of BBEEE is to manage it better. Neither ANC cronyism nor DA exclusion is a real answer. South Africa is among the most unequal countries on earth. The proven weaknesses of the post-apartheid government cannot be used to open the door to re-advantage minorities.
South Africans must interrupt the race to the bottom, reject the ANC-DA binary that has served the country badly, and Unite for Change.
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Redmouth
It is wise to remember that firefighters fight fire with water before you fight fire with fire
sun lemon
So I\’m real good friends with this guy named Juan Ted. Now, Juan is a pretty unbelievable guy. He can steal ANYTHING he wants to. Literally anything. It could be the shirt off your back, the wallet in your pocket, or I\’m even sure he\’d find a way to steal your house (And your spouse too). So anyway, one day Juan and I are sitting around watching TV, and they announced that the hope diamond will not be on display anymore and is now getting moved to an undisclosed location. So as we hear this, Juan says \”I\’m gonna steal it\”. Now I know how good Juan is at this kind of stuff, so I just tell him good luck and he goes on his way. Eventually he narrows his search down to a small cave in South Africa. When Juan gets there, he doesn\’t see any guards or anything outside the cave, so he just walks in assuming he was wrong about where the diamond was. He wanders around for a while until he sees a long lit hallway with the hope diamond at the end of it. Confident in his abilities, he strolls over to the diamond and picks it up before realizing its a trap! Suddenly, red lights flashed, armed men came running out, sirens went off. You could hear one of the men say under his breath \”We finally caught Juan Ted.\” But Juan, being the best thief in the world, said \”Not quite. On the count of three, I will disappear.\” As the men looked around confused, Juan began to count. \”Uno. Dos.\” And he disappeared without a tres.