Tag: affirmative action

The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) has published the Employment Equity Regulations, 2025 under the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA), as amended. This was published together with the notice identifying national economic sectors and determining the sectoral numerical targets, effective from 15 April 2025.

Employment equity compliance is a crucial aspect of fostering diversity and inclusion, ensuring businesses adhere to regulatory requirements while promoting equal opportunities. In today’s competitive business landscape, fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce is a strategic advantage. It isn’t just a regulatory requirement.

South Africa’s economy is in a mess, to say the very least, and all this is solely and exclusively the fault of policymakers. Everything has gone horribly wrong! Yet it is not all beyond redemption.

Ten children are invited to a birthday party. As they arrive, they are each given three golden tokens. The host explains that they will play various games with great prizes using these tokens. In the first game the prize is a brand-new bicycle, which the host says he will give to whichever child offers him the most tokens. This is the supply of desirable goods.

The National Council of Provinces passed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill (Bill) on Tuesday, 17 May 2022. The bill is in its final stage of promulgation as it has been sent to the President for signing. The Bill will amend the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (Act). 

In an emerging economy like South Africa, human capital development is central to the survival and growth of the economy. The economic system that is conducted in South Africa is a market driven capitalistic one, whose focus is on maintaining a sound financial system that is globally competitive.

The middle class broadly has been a high level, vigorous and academic marathon in defining and diagnosing. The middle class has always been viewed as the creation of a capitalistic system, leading to defining society in terms of class and wealth.

A recent bill submitted to Parliament for consideration would seek to impose potentially stringent new quotas for numerical targets for the employment of persons from designated groups. 

South Africa’s Employment Equity Act (EEA) contains a number of anti-discrimination provisions, as well as mechanisms for employers to collect, analyse, plan and report on employment equity information. The mechanisms however, do not cater for those employees who do not identify with being either male or female.

In this insightful and provocative book, Frans Rautenbach proposes a complete overhaul of policy thinking, and provides fresh arguments that effectively address South Africa’s...