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State set to provide R1bn to create black industrialists – don’t hold your breath

THE Department of Trade and Industry will provide grants and cheap loans to the tune of R1bn as part of the government’s plan to create large and competitive black industrialists. The funding was...

Government’s BEE policy creates middlemen

THE government’s black economic empowerment policy has contributed to the country’s deindustrialisation as it has fostered the creation of middlemen in the supply chain, says former African National...

Measuring black ownership on the JSE – we just can’t do it.

THERE has been much bluster recently about just how much of the JSE’s market capitalisation is owned by black people. The JSE put out some of its own numbers saying it is 23% of the top 100 companies...

BEE sector codes’ – your BEE options

A recent email from AQRate said the following This is probably the question we are asked the most often. Will these Amended Codes and all Sector Codes really become effective on 1 May 2015. A well...

Who stands to benefit from the revised BEE codes

A rhetorical question I think. The short answer is the African elite, the longer answer is African people as undefined. As an aside, I looked over the EE Commission's report to see if a definition...

Fifty One Thirty – your new magic number

This post has been written often in my head.  It's proper title should be – "the future of empowerment is……… Fifty One Thirty".  You're going to...

Foreigners with farms over 12 000ha must sell

This appeared to indicate that the two-farm rule either looks set to be done away with, or that it would apply only if the two farms together make up 12 000 hectares. Officials from his department...

Racial migration concept ‘an absurdity’ – a more liberal homeland approach, but it’s still a homeland approach

Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Western Cape (Popcru) provincial secretary Mncedisi Mbolekwa said applying possible migrations meant our becoming more integrated. “More coloured people are...

The speech that caused the trouble – FERIAL HAFFAJEE

There is no Messiah – you are your own liberator My experience is that middle-class South Africa is often in search of a Messiah.  There is none. It’s not Cyril Ramaphosa. Or EFF leader Julius...