Affirmative action failures: Malaysia’s warning for South Africa
Is South Africa making the same mistake as Malaysia regarding the failing affirmative action policies that seem only to escalate costs?
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SA’s new Employment Equity Bill: unconstitutional and counterproductive – Ivo Vegter
The new Employment Equity Bill could be unconstitutional and it is likely to cause more harm than good – with legal battles ahead.
“To give SA’s poor a chance, BEE needs to be scrapped and replaced” – John Endres
“To make a dent in poverty, SA needs to take the brakes off when it comes to economic growth – that means dispensing with BEE and race-based policies.”
Seeking the elusive ‘us’ in AA – Andrew Kenny
Affirmative action is for other people. Nobody believes in affirmative action for the services they receive, only for the services other people receive.
Best of 2021: “To give SA’s poor a chance, BEE needs to be scrapped and replaced” – John Endres
“To make a dent in poverty, SA needs to take the brakes off when it comes to economic growth – that means dispensing with BEE.”
Affirmative action, BEE has brought Eskom to its knees – FF Plus
“The FF Plus gave a few examples of Eskom paying inflated prices because of BEE procurement, which include paying R280,000 per broom,” reports MyBroadband.
White graduates are the Greeks and “Porras” of the past – Anton Roux
In this article Anton Roux, who was the Chief Executive Officer at Medscheme, the chair of Aon Africa and still sits on boards of several companies, observes that many white graduates of his age have become entrepreneurs, either by choice or because they had no other choice.
Anthea Jeffery: What the Media don’t want you to know
Anthea Jeffery says Trump’s victory suggests that ordinary people are beginning to see through the media’s distortions and want it to go back to its true role.
Herbst: What they don’t want you to know. Quotas, John Jeffery and the UN.
The UN rejected the pretext upon which Fikile Mbalula is seeking to prevent SA from hosting the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the ANC would rather you did not know that.
Anthea Jeffery: BEE doesn’t work, but EED would
Anthea Jeffery argues that after decades of damaging employment equity, BEE, it is time to call a halt and embrace a new system of ‘economic empowerment for the disadvantaged’.