Despite their flawed scientific basis, the Employment Equity Commission's own reports show that South Africa is much further along the road to transformation than the Commission's own reports would suggest, said Solidarity.
Reporting the numbers
The Solidarity report shows that there are year on year variations of between 30% and 195% in the number of reports submitted by employers. Only about 28% - or approximately 1 540 out of an average of 5 478 reports - come from the same employers. This means that different years cannot be compared, since the data sets are so radically different.
In addition, the Employment Equity Commission's reports only cover approximately 9.28% of South African employees.
Solidarity also found that many black-dominated employers failed to submit employment equity reports, which skews the information regarding employment equity.
In 2005, 25 municipalities (including Tshwane and Johannesburg), 13 provincial departments and 19 national departments did not submit reports. Other institutions that did not submit reports include parliament and the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Solidarity compiled its report from data from the Employment Equity Commission, the General Household Survey, a database of JSE directors, the South African Advertising Research Foundation studies on the black middle-class and reports by the Public Service Commission.
