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.
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.
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 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’.
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.