Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act
latest news & developmentsDearth of State briefing; death of black legal practice
Discriminatory procurement practices keep black law firms small, while many black advocates are forced to leave the Bar. LPC statistics for 2024 show that the largest majority…
Charge AfriForum, Solidariteit over white ‘genocide’ hoax
When actors within a state engage with a foreign power and that engagement produces economic pressure on the state, the law must determine how such conduct is understood
The legal sector code is a tool for substantive equality in SA’s legal profession
Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage
Once empowered, always empowered: Does the mining charter judgment rule out transformation?
Given the slow pace of change in mining and other sectors, some analysts have raised concerns that the ruling will cause empowerment efforts to unravel
Black Lives Matter: The South African economy’s unfinished business
Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it
Transformation strides put DA at a crossroads
The Democratic Alliance will either splinter or it will unite and reflect South Africa’s diversity
Mantashe releases Mining Charter of compromises
The Mining Charter has focused on empowerment targets and benefits for mining communities
Has BEE been a dismal failure?
Black economic empowerment law cannot be removed until there are real changes in equality, says the commission
DA federal council ditches BEE calling it unsustainable
The DA’s federal council has decided to ditch black economic empowerment, claiming the policy is “just not working.”
Motlanthe: Persistent inequality threatens SA’s peace
At the M&G’s 20 years of economic transformation summit, Kgalema Motlanthe says while poverty has declined, inequality in the workplace has not.
Zille rejects equity quotas as ‘Verwoerdian measures’
Addressing economic equality legislation, Helen Zille has spoken out against coercive equity quotas, which she says the DA shouldn’t support.
The great ownership debate
The financial sector faces a legal quandary, writes Maya Fisher-French.