Empowerment and Apartheid's Lingering Legacy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of B-BBEE Policy
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Wallace, Colin Clarke
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Washington and Lee University, Shepherd Poverty Program
Social responsibility of business
Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation
South Africa
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (South Africa)
Post-apartheid era
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Colin Clarke Wallace is a member of the Class of 2017 of Washington and Lee University. Capstone; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE.] This paper evaluates state intervention through South African government policy by assessing the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act. First introduced in 2003, this Act has played a significant role in advocating corporate social responsibility in aims to amend the discrimination Black South Africans faced during times of apartheid (formally 1948-1991). I argue that this lingering historical bias from apartheid continues to inhibit Black South Africans from a socio-economic standpoint today; however, B-BBEE as it stands today falls short of its potential to provide increased opportunity and empowerment among all races. Thus, a reformed version of B-BBEE is compulsory to increase economic empowerment for Blacks. Colin Wallace