US EditionDA Takes Aim at BEE with Bold New Bill Focusing on Poverty, Not Race
The Democratic Alliance's Economic Inclusion for All Bill targets poverty and small business support to replace race-based empowerment, aiming for fairness and growth, party leaders said.
- On Monday, the Democratic Alliance unveiled the Economic Inclusion for All Bill as an alternative to Black Economic Empowerment, focusing on poverty-based empowerment rather than race.
- DA head of policy Mat Cuthbert said Black Economic Empowerment has failed to uplift most black South Africans, citing high unemployment and persistent poverty since its 2003 introduction and benefits for politically connected ANC cadres.
- Aligning procurement, the bill would align public procurement with Section 217 of the Constitution to ensure fairness and offer incentives for job creation, skills enhancement, and support for small businesses.
- DA leaders insisted on Monday they are under no obligation to agree with the ANC while the City of Cape Town challenged the procurement Act in the Constitutional Court, raising GNU tensions.
- The bill would amend the Public Procurement Amendment Act of 2024 to repeal race-based procurement and align reforms with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, promoting means-testing over race-based eligibility.
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DA takes aim at BEE with bold new bill focusing on poverty, not race
In a move that will almost certainly rock an already precarious Government of National Unity, the DA has unveiled an “economic inclusion for all” bill, hoping it will one day replace the ANC’s Black Economic Empowerment policy.
DA urges ANC and the rest of the GNU to support its bill aimed at scrapping BEE – The Mail & Guardian
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will seek support from the ANC and its other government of national unity (GNU) partners when it tables its proposed Public Procurement Inclusive Bill in parliament to replace the broad-based black economic empowerment policy. The Bill aims to replace what it called years of ineffective ANC empowerment policies that have left the majority of South Africans unemployed, impoverished and hopeless, the DA said on Monday.…
DA says out with BEE, in with economic inclusion
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has launched the Economic Inclusion for All Bill, a proposed alternative to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The party said the new bill would promote fairness, transparency, and growth by focusing on “needs-based empowerment” instead of race. The party’s head of policy Mat Cuthbert said BEE, a policy strongly backed by the ANC, its government of national unity (GNU) partner, had failed to uplift the majority of bla…
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