Being absurdly impractical, it is unfeasible for businesses to comply with the equity act This is a story about a failing state in its last throes of insanity, desperate to get away with a totalitarianism so absurd that it unwittingly sets the scene for a new and better order. On the face of it, the […]

Dismissal for the purpose of meeting the regulations’ numerical goals would violate the Labour Relations Act The publication of the employment equity (EE) regulations last month has caused much controversy. While a vibrant contestation of ideas is the lifeblood of a healthy constitutional democracy, public discourse must always adhere to the factual and legal reality […]

The new EE regime is absurd and impracticable Envision the SA labour market as a timepiece, a complex blend of gears and springs, each playing a crucial role in maintaining the harmony of the ensemble. To function smoothly there needs to be a seamless integration of disparate elements and the deft touch of an invisible […]

The draft employment equity regulations may well be an ‘incoherent mess’, as described by Prof Pierre de Vos, but their implementation will have serious and far-reaching implications for South Africa. Professor Pierre de Vos, head of the Department of Public Law at UCT, wrote about the new version of the Employment Equity Act (EEA), and […]

South Africa is astonishingly creative at fashioning its own political, social and economic demise. Most similarly sized “emerging” economies facilitate their own respective Götterdämmerungs in far more facile ways. Installing some pliant sycophant in the central bank who promptly debases the currency and creates tearaway inflation is a tried and trusted strategy. Alternatively, a coup d’état by […]

They will escalate racial tensions and unemployment, and lead to a flight of skills The recently published draft Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEA) regulations banning the employment of coloured and Indian South Africans in certain economic sectors and provinces are unacceptable (“The ideology that spawns SOE graft also foils literacy”, May 22). The EEA will […]