AEEI While there may well be arguments to be had as to whether the empowerment movement has gone far enough or has been broad-based enough, there’s no doubt that it has had some notable successes in opening up the commanding heights of the economy to the formerly excluded. What is particularly appealing about a structure like African Equity Empowerment Investments (AEEI), apart from the formidable quantity of box-ticking in its very name, is that in a gloriously new SA fashion it is open to everybody who wants a slice. You could be a ginger Celt with a face full of freckles and a warning from your dermatologist not to venture out in the midday sun, but you could still roll up and buy shares and benefit from the access to deal flow that comes from AEEI’s empowerment status. Of course it is a subsidiary of the Sekunjalo group, so you would run the risk of having your eight hours of tired nature’s sweet restorer interrupted by visions of Dr Iqbal Survé approaching you with a cheesy gri...
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