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Challenging the untouchable: South Africa’s growing call for reform – Katzenellenbogen – Biznews | SA News

Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
Our prolonged national decay is forcing many who are deeply worried about the future to speak out.

It is difficult to judge the scale of this newly popular taking-on of the sacrosanct pillars of the ANC post-1994. But in the past few months, stinging criticism of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and the labour laws, often from unexpected sources, has exploded.

Much of this comes from beyond members of the chattering classes, analysts, the Institute of Race Relations and the Free Market Foundation. It is also not coming only from analysts such as Moeletsi Mbeki and William Gumede. It is coming heavily from young black commentators, old white lefties, and some…

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