It seems as though the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) isn’t interested in receiving comments or questions regarding broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) electronically, a member of the MyBroadband forums recently pointed out.<\/p>\n
The DTI operates a B-BBEE portal<\/a> on its website which it says “is designed to help you understand all the legal requirements of B-BBEE” and “contains useful tools to assist you work out your B-BBEE status.”<\/p>\n A link entitled “Contact Us” is displayed on the bottom left of the site and clicking on it leads to a page displaying a form stating: “Type your comments or questions below.” The form further requests your title, first name, surname, email address and daytime phone number. See the image attached to this article.<\/p>\n Unfortunately the contact form isn’t enclosed in HTML form tags<\/a>, which means the browser doesn’t know to send the data in the completed fields back to the server.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the form’s submit button points to essentially nowhere, so the DTI will never receive your question, comment, or contact details.<\/p>\n According to the B-BBEE site it is “powered by” B1SA. B1SA’s own site touts the company as the “leading provider of B-BBEE management services and technology solutions for small and large business, institutions, industry charter councils, and government organisations.”<\/p>\n “Testament to our capability is that B1SA is the service provider that has developed and continues to service The Department of Trade and Industry’s National B-BBEE website and IT Portal,” B1SA claims.<\/p>\n The DTI was asked for comment about the website and its development but didn’t respond to MyBroadband’s questions by the time of publication.<\/p>\n (Thanks to “The R”). Original discussion: Is the DTI fooling you?<\/a><\/p>\n DTI not interested in B-BBEE feedback?<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n\n\t\t