BEE is a form of race discrimination, but can the DA do better?
The DA’s new policy would be based on merit and using the private sector as the engine for growth — it would not be, nor should want to be, simply a more efficient version of the ANC
11 September 2020 - 05:05
It has taken decades for political parties opposing the ANC to come up with a defensible alternative policy that meets the challenges of our times.
The past weekend saw the DA offer its considered counter to the ANC, but the policy’s birth has not been without considerable controversy. It followed in the wake of the departure from the party over recent months of important major black leaders in the party — Mmusi Maimane, Herman Mashaba and John Moodey — who distanced themselves from the prevailing thinking in the upper echelons of the party...
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