New BEE law is a sure sign of madness

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 a decision that if the law has not worked for the past 20 years, then obviously one would have to make it much more stringent and bring in harsher regulations.

This is a sure sign of madness. If a law doesn’t work, it might be useful to go back to the drawing board and remove the repugnant legislation and tackle the problem from another angle.

The government and the governing ANC don’t want to admit that social engineering, so fondly practised by the Nazis and the Nationalist Party, is not the way to go in the future. The world of employment has moved on. To force employment of individuals on the basis of their skin colour has always been immoral and backward thinking.

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