BEE supposedly stands for ‘Black Economic Empowerment’, but South Africans aren’t fools and know that it actually stands for ‘Blatant Elite Enrichment’. But don’t take our word for it! Let’s look instances where important ANC cadres have admitted that ‘Blatant Elite Enrichment’ has failed.
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History is not x leads to y leads to z, but rather a complex network of streams which flow into and out of one another. This is especially true when talking about the history of ideas and political movements.
The vast majority of South Africans are having it tough. Unemployment. Power cuts. Water supply interruptions. Crime. And, making everything worse, Covid-19. Hope is key to bringing change, but hope is a scarce resource these days in Mzansi.
Freedom mattered to Nelson Mandela and it must matter to us if we want to build a truly new South Africa.
For many years, the lack of freedom during apartheid was a rallying point for leaders who opposed racial discrimination. Unfortunately, the end of apartheid and the dawn of non-racial democracy under a new Constitution has not fully delivered on the promise of freedom anti-apartheid leaders used against the government.
There is a way to immediately help South Africa’s unemployed youth and the thousands of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) barely alive after a year of economic lockdown and a decade of policy lockdown.