ANDILE KHUMALO: A sign that regulators are getting smarter about empowerment

16 June 2019 - 00:16 By Andile Khumalo

Ayear ago almost to the day, I wrote in this newspaper about the draft amendments to the generic broad-based BEE (BBBEE) codes and some of the weird changes proposed. My biggest concern was the notion that big companies could essentially get level 1 or level 2 based purely on their black shareholding. As we know, this never saw the light of day, and while my deep-seated ego would like to think this was due to someone important reading this column, it is more likely that our regulators are getting smarter about this BBBEE thing and beginning to realise that business reacts to regulation, not prompts to do the right thing...

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