Lamberti on Sakeliga/Neasa interdicting employee race quotas: An attempt to head off more ANC lunacy

The pot-boiling strategy of destructive ANC economic policies is typified in its approach to employment equity, a quota-based employment system that SA businesses are obliged to implement from September. Sakeliga executive director Russell Lamberti explains why his organisation and Neasa are approaching the courts to block the ANC’s most granular racial policy yet attempted. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

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