Roger Southall
Roger Southall is an Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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/ 23 February 2007

The uneasy logic of black empowerment

Government strategy has created a tiny black elite! Black Economic Empowerment (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, the left blaming neo-liberal capitalism, the right condemning ANC misrule.