The Employment Equity Amendment Act has come under fire from black business organisations after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed it into law last month. The Presidency said the act sought to advance the transformation of South Africa’s workforce by setting equity targets for economic sectors and geographical regions and requiring enterprises to develop transformation plans. The […]

Image: DA Eastern Cape Facebook The Democratic Alliance (DA) held a picket in Gqeberha calling for the amendment of the employment equity legislation as applied in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The party says the legislation is discriminatory and called on the labour minister to revise the legislation in order to allow the municipality to implement […]

Cape Town – The country’s major banks have come under scrutiny by the Department of Employment and Labour for non-compliance relating to Employment Equity. Chief director of statutory and advocacy services, Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede said the department had been monitoring the compliance of JSE-listed companies for compliance with affirmative action in the last financial year, but […]

Clement Manyathela was in conversation with Chief Director of Labour Relations at the Department of Labour, Thembinkosi Mkaliphi and Head of Communications at Solidarity, Dr Morné Malan. The Presidency says the new law will advance transformation The Labour Minister will now be in charge of setting equity targets Solidarity believes the Act is unconstitutional Solidarity […]

Mmusi Maimane believes the new law is flawed and unconstitutional, and with the backing of around 40 civil society groups, said that Bosa would apply for direct access to the Constitutional Court. CAPE TOWN – Build One South Africa (Bosa) leader Mmusi Maimane announced a legal challenge against a new law that would allow independent […]

Centre For Risk Analysis analyst, Gerbrandt van Heerden expands on the failures of affirmative action policies in Malaysia, and warns of the possibility of similar consequences in South Africa. Malaysia’s ‘New Economic Policy’ aimed to eradicate poverty and ensure representation of all ethnic groups in every profession, however, it became a tool for the country’s […]

What then is the purpose of the provision that the director-general may take into account the degree of representativeness in the workforce? If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have got you labelled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed the Employment Equity Bill into law, which empowers the government to set specific equity targets and regulate sector-specific employment equity (EE) targets. The new legislation requires companies with more than 50 employees to submit employment equity plans and annual reports to the Department of Employment and Labour. This increased transparency […]

But first, let me read about 10 people killed in Maritzburg, the dropped Nulane charges, and how we’re no closer to finding out who killed AKA. At least Uncle Waffles jammed at Coachella but the thing is, even under decades of apparently transformative laws, most South Africans won’t be able to afford to buy a boerie roll outside an […]

Most unfortunately, President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the new BEE transformation rules for South Africa into law. The Employment Equity Act brought into our statute book 20 years ago has not only been disastrous as a piece of legislation, but it has had far-reaching destructive effects on the business community. Government officials have unfortunately taken […]