Like communism, BEE may work in theory, but in reality it is a blank cheque that routinely sees the black elite benefiting at the expense of the people it is supposed to be helping.
For example, poor blacks pay through the nose for electricity that could be supplied to them far cheaper if Eskom were allowed to buy coal from companies that were not BEE compliant...
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