ANDILE KHUMALO: Madness to allow companies to avoid transformation
The quote "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is often attributed to the father of the theory of relativity Albert Einstein and has been used repeatedly by two popular organisations. Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous use the phrase to highlight the need for drug or alcohol abusers to consciously break habits to become fully rehabilitated. The logic is that while it is normal to try specific interventions to solve serious problems such as addiction, it borders on stupidity to repeatedly trial an intervention that has not yielded results. This principle came to mind when I read about the Department of Labour's submission to parliament this week on its implementation of the Employment Equity Act. This piece of legislation is probably the government's most important attempt to try to drive South African business to implement the tenets of black economic empowerment in the workplace. It appears toothless in enforcing its reaso...
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