ANC’s racial engineering has failed to help previously disadvantaged in the business sector
13 November 2024 - 15:50
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Speaking to advisers to small businesses, it is apparent that the government’s racial engineering — BEE — has failed to establish meaningful numbers of the previously disadvantaged in the business sector.
Organic growth would have been far preferable, but this would have depended on good education. Here is the biggest failure — by far — of the party of liberation. With an open goal ahead of them, immense goodwill and experienced teachers willing to help, the ANC has managed an unbelievable own goal.
They have managed to drop educational standards for the majority below the level of the much despised Bantu education, with 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning.
No amount of BEE can make up for this reckless sabotage of the future of our children.
Willem Cronje Cape Town
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ANC’s racial engineering has failed to help previously disadvantaged in the business sector
Speaking to advisers to small businesses, it is apparent that the government’s racial engineering — BEE — has failed to establish meaningful numbers of the previously disadvantaged in the business sector.
Organic growth would have been far preferable, but this would have depended on good education. Here is the biggest failure — by far — of the party of liberation. With an open goal ahead of them, immense goodwill and experienced teachers willing to help, the ANC has managed an unbelievable own goal.
They have managed to drop educational standards for the majority below the level of the much despised Bantu education, with 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning.
No amount of BEE can make up for this reckless sabotage of the future of our children.
Willem Cronje
Cape Town
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number
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