OPINIONISTA: A response to Faiez Jacobs: ANC claims are unsubstantiated drivel By Solly Malatsi
This all points to a growing and diversifying environment under the DA which is creating jobs for all South Africans.
There is also no confusion over the DA policy on BBBEE as Jacobs purports. The DA believes that race is a proxy for disadvantage but not the only proxy. There is a growing black middle class which is well-evidenced and thus race cannot be the only determinant going forward, one also needs to look at other social-economic factors beyond race.
A bottom-up approach needs to focus on education and skills, from a primary level to the tertiary level. It also needs to focus on rapidly increasing employment and equity schemes that can benefit hundreds of thousands and not a few individuals. It needs to nurture, train and support individuals to start their own businesses.
The DA supports a much-simplified BBBEE verification system that measures real empowerment. Our approach would see the current BBBEE scorecard vastly simplified with the inclusion of time frames for initiatives in the scorecards .
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