I don’t trust half y’all to have a decent conversation about this but nonetheless, it’s an interesting article. The article takes a strong stance regarding South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies and how critics see them as only helping those who are already politically connected. Certainly looking at South Africa’s continuing issues of inequality, it is hard to bat for these policies insofar as they have seemingly missed the mark at addressing inequality. Personally from a liberal standpoint I am of the opinion that good governance and free market policies can do far more to empower the middle class than the government picking and choosing its winners but I don’t know enough about the specifics of BEE to make any strong statements. I’d love to hear the thoughts of our South African regs though as they’re fairly insightful on the matter.
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I don’t trust half y’all to have a decent conversation about this but nonetheless, it’s an interesting article. The article takes a strong stance regarding South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies and how critics see them as only helping those who are already politically connected. Certainly looking at South Africa’s continuing issues of inequality, it is hard to bat for these policies insofar as they have seemingly missed the mark at addressing inequality. Personally from a liberal standpoint I am of the opinion that good governance and free market policies can do far more to empower the middle class than the government picking and choosing its winners but I don’t know enough about the specifics of BEE to make any strong statements. I’d love to hear the thoughts of our South African regs though as they’re fairly insightful on the matter.
!ping AFRICA