The idea of affirmative action may or may not be right, I don't know, but no one can disagree with this:
Firstly, most affirmative action and BEE measures affect only the top 15 per cent of the income pyramid and have little or no impact on the condition of the bottom 85 per cent of our society.
Affirmative action as it is done now by the ANC is only to help enrich a few friends of the party. No one can claim that affirmative action/BEE helps the majority of poor people, it doesn't. It doesn't even help poor people, it helps middle or upper cla** black people get richer. South Africa's Gini coefficient, i.e. the measure of economic inequality, is still increasing, even with BEE/affirmative action, that means inequality is still increasing. The government should spend more money providing clean water, cheap electricity, good hospitals that are well stocked with equipment and medicine, good quality free education, tertiary education scholarships, etc. rather than spenf=ding all the tax payers money to enrich themselves and a few friends. The implementation of BEE/affirmative action = FAIL.
