Let's redress imbalances of past based on poverty - not race, Steenhuisen argues
CAPE TALK / 04 FEBRUARY 2020 - 12.12 / QAMA QUKULA
Interim DA leader John Steenhuisen says using race as a proxy for disadvantage has failed ordinary black South Africans.
Steenhuisen argues that race-based quotas have empowered a small group of politically-connected people while excluding the majority of South Africans in need.
Today with Kieno Kammies
The DA is poised to reject race-based quotas at its policy conference in April.
Steenhuisen says policies should focus on a means test, using poverty as a threshold, instead of race.
He claims that government interventions such as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) have been tainted by corruption over the last 25 years, leaving black households are 10% poorer than before.
Black households are 10% poorer now than they were before.
John Steenhuisen, DA leader
There's been nothing broad-based or economically empowering by just simply layering over race-based policies.
John Steenhuisen, DA leader
There's absolutely no reason for us to use race as a proxy. It will cut out that corruption coefficient that as empowered a small group of people when the majority remains locked out.
John Steenhuisen, DA leader
Listen to the discussion on Today with Kieno Kammies:
LINK : https://omny.fm/shows/the-kieno-kammies-show/is-the-da-abandoning-race-based-redress-policy
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