FF+ questions Amazon Web Services ownership rule
He says “The FF Plus is not claiming the AWS requirement is unlawful under broad-based black economic empowerment legislation, but wants the source of the 100% threshold established — whether it stems from South African law, the relevant BBBEE code, the terms of the approved programme, or a condition AWS has chosen to impose itself.
The party’s spokesperson for Trade, Industry and Competition, Jaco Mulder, says “The FF Plus is not asking the American government to dictate South African transformation policy, but is raising a narrower question about whether an American federal contractor’s decision to make racial ownership an absolute condition for participation raises concerns under United States policy on racial discrimination by federal contractors.” Responding to criticism that the party is undermining transformation and appealing to a foreign government to intervene in a South African empowerment programme, Mulder says a system that determines economic opportunity primarily through racial classification has serious shortcomings.
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