A senior official at the SA Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) has criticised the Black Business Summit in a newspaper letter published on Friday following its decision to suspend its Business Unity SA membership.
Frans Cronje, the deputy CEO of the unit for risk analysis at the SAIRR, says in a letter to Business Day it seems the new Black Business Council, under the leadership of businessman Patrice Motsepe, has a "long list of wants".
"They want government funding, they want the government to set up a commission to look at empowerment, they want the government to establish a new ministry to promote small business, and they want the government to finance black construction firms.
"In other words, they expect taxpayers to subsidise their new operation. It must be lost on them that this tax was generated by the same private business sector they have just walked out on," writes Cronje.
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