JOHANNESBURG - The critique of South Africa’s so-called "racial policies" by the United States has again put BBEE in the spotlight.
Broad-based economic empowerment measures were put in place to counter apartheid policies that disadvantaged different groups of South Africans through poorer education, a lack of promotion and confiscation of their assets and rights.
Many have argued it’s not working.
An academic says that the complex problems affecting the country's economic growth cannot be reduced to policies aimed at redress.
Dr Khwezi Mabasa, the Economic and Social Policy Lead at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa, discussed this with eNCA.