EE, I honestly do not know how we going to solve this race issue in RSA. Firstly this mainly white companies are asked to submit unaudited numbers (you can only imagine the cooking), then next the same whites do not believe this numbers they supplied. Stats analysis is stats analysis - get over it. The numbers are right. Individual cases are plenty, educated & hardworking black not moving up. White experienced people not going anywhere. EE Act was meant exactly for that - halt too many whites going up unneccesarily. I thought everyone liked Mandela and his vision and thinking. Then this EE is one of many pieces to solve past injustices. Please choose a side 1. For apartheid or 2. Against apartheid. If you choose 2, then live with EE. Now the goverment, this lazy "African civil servants & politicians" setup Land Banks, AgricultureBEE dept, DFI (IDC, NEF, etc) - good. But instead of their function, they faud and milk this institutions for themselves and their political superiors. They are not supporting new black owners of land after land redistribution, and this 2 actions of many, are re really pulling poorest of the poor (key voters) down even more. We choose our paths, then we can only go forward - if EE is that stuffed up, how do we improve it - and stop ranting about race which is not getting us anywhere.

i feel feathers for them..they vote the same useless goverment in that steals the money they supposed to use for education etc..you vote ANC --- suffer in silence! we dont want to hear it..

my WHITE husband can NOT find work in this country! there is no scope for promotion and ALL his applications are rejected..so please..the whites are suffering..happy now?

Oh may hat, I am sick and tired of hearing that. If your qualified to do the job, and do it right .The job is your's, but alas its just not happening YET!! It will....ever heard the saying . Rome was not built in a day.

This government wants to water the leaves in hope that the tree will grow! Spend some money on education, bursaries, development, training and you will bear fruit..! Not by watering the leaves!

Employ the best candidate you can. If all of them are flippen green with yellow horns then so be it. If all are white / black - whatever then that's just how it is. Tough luck.

You may not like them, but perhaps you should follow the example of the Afrikaners. When the Afrikaners took over politician leadership from those of British descent 50 or so years ago, from what I can see, mostly with the exception of government posts, they didn't put those of British descent out with quotas, instead they started new companies that they owned and ran. This made the economy stronger, not weaker. Favoring "(y)our people" outside of government will only end in tears for us all.

I think all the readers are missing the point. Blacks have been oppressed and thunk for for almost a 100 years since the dutch came to Africa. They have had little or no schooling which geared them for hard labour and nothing else, they were not taught critical thinking skills nor entrepreneural skills. Now all of a sudden we expect them to have a miraculous turnaround in mindset in 16 years. Think people we are all caught in the crossover, whites, blacks, coloureds, indians. Yes the new generation had little or nothing to do with apartheid and oppression, but we need to look at the psychological implications of the past and accept that it will take generations to make amends.

I wonder who is in charge of the of the Road Traffic management Corporation? The one that wasted the R144m, dipped there fingers into the Enatis funds and generally misamanged the business by flouting procurement procedures?

I have just left SA for good, due to frustration over the "New South Africa". I am a European man who came to set up a subsidiary of an international company in 1995. I experienced the aftermath of apartheid, the transition and reconciliation period and I invested personally in SA. My despair and disillusion has grown steadily over the past 5 years and I have had it. Public institutions full of blacks who don't deliver what they should but publicly yawn, pick their noses etc. Police officers more concerned with how to set up motorists for a bribe, blacks bragging with their new found wealth in over-sized Mercedes and BMWs. Blacks in Armani-suits and loaded with gold accessories in airlines business and first class. Corruption at all levels including the courts who can strike a case off the roll if the person is an ANC politician (or just influential). I could go on. Everybody knows what I am talking about here. But the Government do NOTHING about it. The fat cats just make new laws that prevent decent people from functioning in this country. How sad that this otherwise lovely country is being maltreated by those who claim they own the land. Good bye SA.