Blackness has become a commodity in the black economic empowerment market with black people offering themselves for fronting purposes in return for payment, MPs learnt with shock last week. The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission’s Zodwa Ntuli said the growing trend was just as much a subversion of the objectives of the B-BBEE Act as when white business people abused blacks as fronts in order to win government contracts only to marginalise them afterwards. Both forms of fronting were corrupt and would be treated with zero tolerance, commissioner Ntuli told members of Parliament’s trade and industry committee during a briefing. The commission’s role is to monitor the implementation of the act, which aims to increase the number of black people who own, manage and control enterprises either on an individual or in a broad-based manner. "Willing frontees are people who are making themselves available to be fronted for a quick buck. They know exactly what they are d...
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