Is the Employment Equity Act (EEA) the failure most people think it is? Heather Robertson, DM168’s Editor, thinks so. Solid statistics – what she calls “grim racial facts” – seemingly support her anxiety.
She writes:
“The data show that despite the Employment Equity Act signed in 1998, whites hold a greater proportion of senior management positions … than their black African counterparts. For only 17% of the 81% black African population to have the skills, experience and knowledge to reach senior management positions and lead companies, is just plain nuts. Equally nutty is the converse, that the minority 7.7% of the population holds the key to 63.2% of the economic kingdom. Only in South Africa.”
As part of her passionate plea for further “thoughts about the need for economic redress and ideas to tackle it”, she refers us to “our astute Business Maverick writer Ray Mahlaka [who] has cut through the hysteria and explained the data… I urge as many of you as possible to read every word of Mahlaka’s balanced, fact-based journalism on an issue that could easily plunge us into the emotionally charged morass of racial polarisation that will further divide us”.
Ray Mahlaka does indeed use the facts from the authoritative Employment Equity Commission’s (EEC’s) latest annual report. These reports, according to Mahlaka...
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