The Democratic Alliances DA call to replace the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment BBBEE has not made it onto the agenda at the three day African National Congress ANC National Executive Council NEC in Germiston, East of Johannesburg. That is according to the African National Congress ANC Head of Economic Transformation Committee Zuko Godlimpi.
Earlier this month, the DA launched what it calls the Economic Inclusion Bill for All to replace the ANC backed BBBEE. The DA says BBBEE has failed to uplift South Africas unemployed and impoverished majority. But Godlimpi says they remain committed to BEE as an intervention to make South Africa work for all.
The ANC has not met the DA about whatever they claim is their alternative bill. We have not met them about that and we have no intention of meeting them about it because thats their own thing it has nothing to do with us. We remain committed to BEE as an unavoidable part of how to make SA work for all of us. If there are efficacy problems with particular instruments of implementing policies, we will improve them as we go along. But BEE as a strategic programme remains intact, it is not going anywhere and the NEC is not going to sit and discuss DA views.