OPINIONISTA: Only the ANC can trigger real transformation in Western Cape By Faiez Jacobs
As the country’s focus turns again to economic development and investment, many have asked what role the Western Cape has played in all of these projects.
Yet it would seem that after a decade of DA rule in the Western Cape not much growth has occurred in this strata. While some provinces such as Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal may be introducing BBBEE 4.0 or even 5.0, the Western Cape has been stunted at BBBEE 2.0. This period could be referred to as BBBEE 1.0 and was championed precisely because, as champions such as former President Thabo Mbeki contended in 1999, South Africa needed a black capitalist class in order to ensure economic empowerment of black people, thereby deracialising the ownership of productive property in our country and thus bringing about stability.
The fact that South Africa’s history was not based on equal opportunities and that not all players were, therefore, starting off on the same footing was irrelevant to this DA faction.
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