LETTER: Steinberg wrong on education
Private sector backed BEE to survive and had no spare cash for anything else
I usually enjoy Jonny Steinberg’s writing, but he got it hopelessly wrong in his most recent column (“Failure on both sides of the rift between government and business (../../columnists/2021-03-25-jonny-steinberg-failure-on-both-sides-of-the-rift-between-government-and-business/)”, March 25).
He writes that “white capital offered a section of the ANC riches and in exchange things went on much as before. Power was never transferred to ordinary people”. He also cites a “black” corporate figure who laments that had the private sector taken “half the money that has gone into BEE and put it in the right sort of education, this country would now be a different place”...
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