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Zuma promises more changes to boost BEE – now it’s changing the PPPFA

Speaking to the Black Business Council, which has signaled strong support for Zuma, South Africa’s president said that the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act will be changed “to continue the quest for a transformed economy”. More people must be brought into the net to benefit from government contracts, he said. via www.biznews.com We've heard this […]

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Regional and national EAP, Bolshie Bob content

[E]mployment opportunities are accessible to people only where they live.  The objective of the EE Act is not to induce racial migrations to accommodate the statistics.  Its objective is accessibility of employment opportunities and it achieves that objective only if it takes account where applicants for the posts are located.  Statistics that serve as a

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This is the 1000th post or THE SUCCESS OF BLACK BUSINESS WILL BE MEASURED AGAINST THE FAILURE OF WHITE BUSINESS

This blog was started in August 2006. I started writing it as a guide to people who wanted to know more about the vagaries of black economic empowerment. Perhaps the liberating experience of having a platform to pretty much say what you want went to my head because the blog soon evolved into a political

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Draft PPPFA regulation disgust (discussed and cussed)

In his 2015 state of the nation giggle session our very competent, intelligent and decisive president made the following announcement. Government will set-aside 30% of appropriate categories of State procurement for purchasing from SMMEs, co-operatives as well as township and rural enterprises. We are quite used to this esteemed personage's platitudes and incredible decisiveness so it

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State of the nation – indeed. No foreign land owners and set asides

What happened before Zoomer started speaking showed the real state of the nation.  What a despicable person and the party that he represents is rapidly descending into a neo-Nationalist party (the old PW Botha version).  It would seem that our dearly beloved president is now considering how to pay off his Nkandla loan – there

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How can a leader of any country be so derided by one of the most influential publications in South Africa

Quite simply because he is not respected by the business community.  You cannot assume that the FM is speaking in isolation here.  Just take a look at the cover page of this week's issue.  The lead article is equally damning.  JACOB Zuma’s Presidency has taken on a particular flavour. Exposés of capricious political interference in

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