LETTER: Four steps to get SA moving
Country should start by repealing race-based equity and empowerment policies
You write in your editorial that “the government should stop dilly-dallying and take the tough decisions to get SA moving” (“Fed rate cut puts focus on Bank, but long-term solution lies with government (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2020-03-04-editorial-fed-rate-cut-puts-focus-on-bank-but-long-term-solution-lies-with-government/)”, March 4). But you do not spell out what your newspaper thinks those should be.
At the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), the view is that four necessary reforms must be introduced. The first is a complete repeal of all race-based equity and empowerment policies. These should be replaced with the new socioeconomically based empowerment policy developed by my colleagues, called economic empowerment for the disadvantaged (EED)...
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