NameOfBeast
27-09-2007, 09:15 AM
Kane-Berman on EE in BusinessDay:
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A573246
“White” companies must make their workplaces demographically “representative”. White companies must hand over a certain portion of their equity to blacks in order to get mining licences. Whites must fill in scorecards of what they are doing for blacks. A host of ratings agencies are being set up to measure white achievement — in doing things for blacks. Is SA not interested in black achievement? How many black entrepreneurs — professionals such as lawyers and accountants as well as businessmen and women — have been made offers they cannot refuse by white firms pursuing some or other target or quota? And whose interests does this serve — those of established white firms or the cause of black entrepreneurship? What are the government’s priorities — making blacks independent or whites compliant?
The labour minister’s refusal to contemplate a sunset clause for affirmative action means that the current generation of white school goers is in effect being told to prepare for a life of entrepreneurship — or emigration — while their black counterparts are being told to prepare for a life in which the government can be relied on to make whites do things for them, a life in which failure can always be blamed on someone else.
We are building an economy in which whites have to become more and more self-reliant, while blacks become ever more dependent on what the government forces whites to do for them. That is a strange form of liberation.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A573246
“White” companies must make their workplaces demographically “representative”. White companies must hand over a certain portion of their equity to blacks in order to get mining licences. Whites must fill in scorecards of what they are doing for blacks. A host of ratings agencies are being set up to measure white achievement — in doing things for blacks. Is SA not interested in black achievement? How many black entrepreneurs — professionals such as lawyers and accountants as well as businessmen and women — have been made offers they cannot refuse by white firms pursuing some or other target or quota? And whose interests does this serve — those of established white firms or the cause of black entrepreneurship? What are the government’s priorities — making blacks independent or whites compliant?
The labour minister’s refusal to contemplate a sunset clause for affirmative action means that the current generation of white school goers is in effect being told to prepare for a life of entrepreneurship — or emigration — while their black counterparts are being told to prepare for a life in which the government can be relied on to make whites do things for them, a life in which failure can always be blamed on someone else.
We are building an economy in which whites have to become more and more self-reliant, while blacks become ever more dependent on what the government forces whites to do for them. That is a strange form of liberation.