MICHAEL MORRIS: Racial ‘empowerment’ an insult to growing ranks of hungry people
Tau’s Transformation Fund will be another feature of the policy edifice blocking SA’s way to success and wellbeing
05 May 2025 - 05:00
The two things trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau’s advisers ought to tell him are that empowerment is gravely urgent, but that basing it on race (euphemistically, “historical disadvantage”) is an insult to the swelling ranks of immiserated, hungry people.
If he listened (and they had the courage to tell him the truth in the first place), SA might begin taking its first steps away from the accumulating catastrophe of its failed experiment in social engineering. ..
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