The policy was created by the Anglo American empire and implemented by the ANC, writes Ebrahim Harvey
This article was motivated by a thoughtful and truthful letter to the editor in February, “BEE bars investment, boosts poverty and fuels graft ” by Peter Samson. However, it is indisputable that as a supposedly transformative concept and tool in postapartheid SA the origins of BEE ironically lie not in the liberation movement, led by the ANC, or in the black consciousness movement, founded by Steve Biko in 1968.
Oppenheimer and Anglo, which in the early 1990s owned and controlled about 75% of the JSE, in probably the most glaring concentration and centralisation of wealth in the world, was understandably nervous about the future of SA and its own interests after Nelson Mandela was released from pri...
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