Category: Black

The black middle entrepreneurial class, SONA and the deep blue (AN) Sea

Leave a Comment / Black, Employment Equity, Entrepreneurship / Paul Janisch

"Where are the black entrepreneurs who should be sitting around this table?", the very prominent Sandton CEO asked the room that was full of white entrepreneurial faces. The entrepreneurial faces belong to an entrepreneurial organisation. Of the many members only a handful are black. The banking CEO, as it turns out was asking a rhetorical […]

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Who is an African?

Leave a Comment / 2012 COGP, Black / Paul Janisch

Thabo Mbeki is one, we know that for a fact. We know that the term African is now used to describe a certain segment of our society. That's not right, it's not a segment – it's a racial classification. It's rather an unfortunate classification because it is built on a certain perception and not a

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So you want to be black by birth or descent, well then read on

How do we identify black? Simple, the JSE has become the guardian of such things

Leave a Comment / Black, JSE / Paul Janisch

A few years ago Levin Kester hosted a very entertaining course on that flawlessly authored document – the BEE verification manual. He went through the whole thing and unfortunately didn't show how much a verification would cost if you had to follow it to the letter. Anyway one of the things that he did touch

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How you get to degrees of black?

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This is taken from a recent article in the Business Day. THE Department of Communications has reiterated its plans to involve black companies in the manufacturing of digital TV decoders through possible subsidies or incentives to companies that lack funds and resources. A department official said it had formed an interministerial process with the departments

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