Decades-Old Policy Sparks Outrage as Racial Injustice Against White South Africans Intensifies
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest statement defending South Africa’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) laws has ignited outrage, with critics labeling the policy a systemic tool for the economic persecution of white minority.
In a June 30 address, Ramaphosa hailed BEE as a cornerstone of economic transformation, mandating racial quotas for ownership and management, yet evidence suggests it enriches only a cadre elite of about 100 connected individuals, bypassing the black majority.
Far from redressing past wrongs, opponents argue BEE’s race-based framework targets white South Africans, enforcing discriminatory quotas that exclude them from economic participation.
The Equity Equivalent Investment Programme, praised by Ramaphosa, is seen as a loophole benefiting multinational giants while sidelining local white-owned businesses.
With unemployment soaring and wealth concentrated among ANC loyalists, many view these laws as a modern Apartheid or “Blackpartheid,” designed not for empowerment but to entrench racial injustice against a shrinking white minority.
Dissenting voices are brewing as calls for scrapping these policies grow louder.
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