Mandla Mandela condemns call to exclude Indians and coloureds from BEE
‘How insensitive and crass can you get‚ to imply that the sacrifice of the Indian and coloured communities were somehow lesser?’ asks Nelson Mandela’s grandson
The call to exclude coloured and Indian South Africans from BEE in tenders worth more than R50m is "ill-timed‚ poorly conceived and flies in the face of the constitutional provision for redress"‚ says ANC MP Mandla Mandela.The grandson of late former president Nelson Mandela and chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council has released a statement claiming that the proposed changes to BEE policy also contradict "the ANC’s Mangaung Resolution for radical economic transformation for all who were historically disadvantaged".Mandela‚ who converted to Islam a few months before marrying his fourth wife‚ Rabia Clarke‚ in February last year‚ was responding to a proposal sent to the National Treasury by KwaZulu-Natal economic development MEC Sihle Zikalala in August‚ as reported in the Sunday Times. Zikalala’s proposal purportedly aims to "benefit black Africans".The Mvezo chief minced no words in his statement condemning the idea‚ warning against "myopic revisionism" and calling the proposal "a b...
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