THERE can be no doubt that the government is determined to see a better representation of black business people in the economy, a move officials have likened to Afrikaners in the apartheid era securing a better share of the business sector from the English. However, it was always going to take time and careful planning to turn around the considerable tanker of white privilege to better balance the profile of corporate SA.The government has promised billions of rand to support the development of black industrialists and has given an indicative target of initially fostering the development of 100 of these new captains of industry. Of course, many of those already entrenched in SA’s boardrooms are a tad uneasy that what is good for their black counterparts may be bad for them. This need not be so if we can grow the overall pool of entrepreneurial talent with many new black faces without eclipsing the (mainly white) incumbents.However, as we hear increasing rumbles about an economy in t...
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