Business must be proactive on BEE for national prosperity and social cohesion
It is time for inclusiveness. Gone are the days when doing business implied sticking to a closed circuit of suppliers or even partners
SA is in crisis. You don’t need me to tell you that — you read it every time you open a newspaper, tune into a chat show or log on to social media. There’s no denying it, but equally, there’s no point whatsoever in wallowing in it. We can do something to change — especially those of us who are in business or own businesses. The company I formed was set up to help people grow the economy and create jobs by building small and medium-sized businesses that don’t just last, but flourish. Two years ago I was wondering how to take this further because of the catastrophic levels of distrust between business, government and labour. One of the biggest issues we have in this country is not just the overwhelming negativity and associated feeling of powerlessness in the face of it, but the incredibly negative narrative about business, especially Bell Pottinger’s “white minority capital”. The opportunity arose through the merging of the different black economic empowerment (BEE) codes. Before, en...
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