Anthea Jeffery: Time to take Mining Charter from BEE to EED
Off the back of disastrous unemployment figures, where 4 000 jobs were shed in the country’s mining sector, Anthea Jeffery is calling for urgent resolution on the Mining Charter.
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Anthea Jeffery: Ratcheting up the BEE rules, yet again
Anthea Jeffery says that BEE has failed in its objectives. It needs urgently to be replaced by a new system of ‘economic empowerment for the disadvantaged’ or EED.
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’.
Anthea Jeffery: Small business and the BEE burden
Twenty odd years later, BEE has grown out of proportion and deviated from its original purpose – to empower those who were historically disadvantaged – and rather ensures that not only is our society drifting further and further from its constitutional commitment to non-racialism, but too continues to create a gap between the top earners and the rest of the South African population.