DA’s challenge to equity measures exposes racial schisms

Our workplaces are still dominated by white males

11 May 2025 - 00:00 By SUNDAY TIMES EDITORIAL

The DA’s legal challenge to the Employment Equity Amendment Act has exposed the economic and racial fault lines that persist in South Africa 31 years after the end of statutory apartheid, and which continue to block the path to the nonracial and equitable society enjoined by the constitution. ..

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