‘This country will burn’: ANCYL warning over B-BBEE

The setting aside of the Legal Sector Code by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the invalidation of the Public Procurement Act by the Constitutional Court and attempts to weaken B-BBEE in public procurement expose a determined effort to preserve an economic order that continues to marginalise the black majority, particularly Africans, and to keep South Africa’s wealth in white hands,” said the league’s Tsakani Shiviti.

The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) says South Africa will burn if it abandons transformation laws such as Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE).“Defend transformation publicly and without backing down; re-issue a lawful Legal Sector Code within 90 days; keep B-BBEE preferences and set-asides in any new procurement law; enforce employment equity and B-BBEE across all sectors; and refuse corporate pressure to water down black economic empowerment.”