Ill-considered equity law is no tonic for growth, jobs
With millions unemployed, enacting another measure to obstruct and racialise the workplace is not the way to grow the economy or raise people out of poverty
11 May 2025 - 00:00
While all around us South Africa falls apart, be assured that if nothing else the one-eyed campaign for the promised land of equality by legislative coercion is alive and kicking. I refer here to the Employment Equity Amendment Act, now the subject of a court challenge by the DA, predictably criticised as a rearguard action to resurrect apartheid...
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