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- Political shifts threaten BEE
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Black business is going into this election more politically diverse than it has been since the end of apartheid, writes Ferial Haffajee.
- Barloworld goes broad
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It had to be pushed by government, but the company shows the way empowerment is going, writes Reg Rumney.
- Empowerment needs connections
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It's about much more than pin-stripes and requires business and other leaders to open up social and economic connections between the world of plenty.
- Understanding Sasol's BEE offer
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Some advice to a would-be Inzalo share scheme subscriber from a helpful nephew
- In spirit as well as letter
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Broad-based empowerment and material transformation must become the new business as usual, says Nkosinathi Chonco.
- The uneasy logic of black empowerment
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Government strategy has created a tiny black elite! BEE favours rampant crony capitalism! BEE is just corporate trickle down to the black middle class! Black empowerment is no more broad-based than Jacob Zuma's bank balance! Such complaints form the backdrop to much discussion about BEE.
- Neither broad nor black
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Cosatu has always supported the principle of BEE. Our national democratic revolution cannot be completed without reversing the massive racial imbalance in the distribution of wealth we inherited from our racist past. Interestingly, the RDP does not mention the term "black economic empowerment".
- Cracking the codes
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The Codes of Good Practice on Black Economic Empowerment provide a standard framework for measuring empowerment across all sectors of the economy. According to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act of 2003, state organs and public entities must take the codes into consideration "as far as is reasonably possible".
- On the fast track to success
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When I first call Car Torque presenter Richard Ndlela to set up an interview at the Porsche Centre in Lonehill, he tells me that I will recognise him by his trademark "BEE look" of designer jeans and a jacket. When I arrive in Lonehill I am surprised to see him alight from the passenger side of a modest Toyota Corolla, which he tells me belongs to his partner. The vehicle Ndlela is here to drive is the new Cayenne GTS.
- Getting back to basics
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The tendency to deal with empowerment as a system of scorecard compliance impedes transformation because there is no values-based leadership in such an exercise. Scores do not achieve wholesome change or a new way of doing business -- sustainability cannot be achieved that way.
