This week’s publication of the regulations giving effect to the Employment Equity Act underscores the urgent need to resist draconian, race-based laws aimed at promoting Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).
The more the detrimental effects of BEE become evident – particularly in terms of economic decline and unemployment – the more desperately the ANC clings to it.
The era of race-based laws and regulations such as these has long since passed, and persisting with them is absurd. The fact that black unemployment has more than doubled since 2008 seems to escape the ANC entirely.
These regulations are nothing but an extension of the counter-productive, draconian over-regulation of the labour market. The most reliable measure of their impact is South Africa’s economy, which leaves no doubt regarding their failure.
To make matters worse, ministers retain the authority to make sectoral determinations in the economy, which is equally absurd and harmful.
Year after year, Statistics South Africa and the Gini coefficient indicate that, in terms of income, South Africa is rapidly becoming one of the most unequal countries in the world. This apparently goes unnoticed by the ANC as well.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) urges all private sector employers to do everything in their power and within the constraints of the law, much like lawful tax avoidance, to circumvent these laws and regulations.
The ANC’s actions, which defy all logic and fairness toward minorities, are lent a degree of legitimacy by the victims who, for thirty years, have accepted them without resistance or protest.
Likewise, the ANC has come to expect that minorities’ response to oppression is to work harder and be more accommodating. This has to stop.
It is the public’s right to freely and fairly resist institutional oppression.
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