Black Economic Empowerment, the Glossary

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1. 84 relations: Affirmative action, African National Congress, Angelo Agrizzi, Apartheid, Bosasa, Bourgeoisie, Cabinet of Nelson Mandela, Chinese South Africans, Coloureds, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Consortium, Constitution of South Africa, Consultant, Corruption, Corruption in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, Daron Acemoglu, Democratic Alliance (South Africa), Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, Desmond Tutu, Discrimination, Ease of doing business index, Economy of South Africa, Enoch Godongwana, Eskom, Ethnic groups in South Africa, European Union, Exempted Micro Enterprises, Financial capital, Fraud, Freedom Front Plus, Gauteng Division, Government of South Africa, Government procurement, Group Areas Act, Gupta family, Human capital flight, Human resources, Indian South Africans, Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, Jacob Zuma, John Steenhuisen, JSE Limited, Malaysian New Economic Policy, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002, Minister of Finance (South Africa), MTN Group, Naturalization, Nelson Mandela, Netcare, ... Expand index (34 more) »

2. 1994 establishments in South Africa
3. 2004 establishments in South Africa
4. Affirmative action
5. Black economic empowerment
6. Discrimination in South Africa
7. Ethnic empowerment

Affirmative action

Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups. Black Economic Empowerment and Affirmative action are politics and race.

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.

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Angelo Agrizzi

Angelo Agrizzi was the chief operating officer of Bosasa, a South African logistics company, until 2016.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Black Economic Empowerment and Apartheid are discrimination in South Africa and politics and race.

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Bosasa

Bosasa was a South African company specialising in providing services to government, most notably correctional services.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Cabinet of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela took the oath as President of South Africa on 10 May 1994 and announced a Government of National Unity on 11 May 1994. Black Economic Empowerment and Cabinet of Nelson Mandela are 1994 establishments in South Africa.

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Chinese South Africans

Chinese South Africans are Overseas Chinese who reside in South Africa, including those whose ancestors came to South Africa in the early 20th century until Chinese immigration was banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1904.

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Coloureds

Coloureds (Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people.

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Congress of South African Trade Unions

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU or Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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Constitution of South Africa

The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa.

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Consultant

A consultant (from consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as expert, specialist, see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations).

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Corruption

Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.

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Corruption in South Africa

Corruption in South Africa includes the improper use of public resources for private ends, including bribery and improper favouritism.

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Cyril Ramaphosa

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician serving as the 5th and current president of South Africa since 2018.

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Daron Acemoglu

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics.

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Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party which is a part of the current South African Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and several others.

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Department of Trade, Industry and Competition

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (also known as the dtic; before June 2019 the Department of Trade and Industry or the dti) is the department of the South African government with responsibility for commercial policy and industrial policy.

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Ease of doing business index

The ease of doing business index was an index created jointly by Simeon Djankov, Michael Klein, and Caralee McLiesh, three leading economists at the World Bank Group, following the release of World Development Report 2002.

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Economy of South Africa

The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa.

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Enoch Godongwana

Enoch Godongwana (born 9 June 1957) is a South African politician and former trade unionist who is currently serving as the Minister of Finance since August 2021.

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Eskom

Eskom Hld SOC Ltd or Eskom is a South African electricity public utility.

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Ethnic groups in South Africa

Racial groups in South Africa have a variety of origins.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Exempted Micro Enterprises

In South African law, Exempted Micro Enterprises (EMEs) are businesses that are exempt from measurement in terms of the DTI's codes of Good Practice for Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Black Economic Empowerment and Exempted Micro Enterprises are Black economic empowerment.

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Freedom Front Plus

The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus; Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus) is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. Black Economic Empowerment and Freedom Front Plus are 1994 establishments in South Africa.

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Gauteng Division

The Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa is a superior court of law which has general jurisdiction over the South African province of Gauteng and the eastern part of North West province.

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Government of South Africa

The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system.

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Government procurement

Government procurement or public procurement is when a governing body purchases goods, works, and services from an organization for themselves or the taxpayers.

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Group Areas Act

Group Areas Act was the title of three acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa.

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Gupta family

The Gupta family is a wealthy and influential business family from India, with close ties to former South African President Jacob Zuma and his administration.

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Human capital flight

Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home.

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Human resources

Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa

Negotiations to end apartheid began in 1990 and continued until President Nelson Mandela's electoral victory as South Africa's first Black president in the first democratic all-races general election of 1994.

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Jacob Zuma

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018.

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John Steenhuisen

John Henry Steenhuisen (born 25 March 1976) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Minister of Agriculture since June 2024.

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JSE Limited

JSE Limited (previously the JSE Securities Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) is the largest stock exchange in Africa.

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Malaysian New Economic Policy

The New Economic Policy (NEP) (Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB)) was a social re-engineering and affirmative action program formulated by the National Operations Council (NOC) in the aftermath of the 13 May Incident in Malaysia.

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Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa.

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Minister of Finance (South Africa)

The minister of Finance is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa who is the political head of the National Treasury.

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MTN Group

MTN Group Limited (formerly M-Cell) is a South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Netcare

Netcare Limited is a South African private healthcare company.

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Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) is a British-American business law firm.

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Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.

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Parliament of South Africa

The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces.

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Patrice Motsepe

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe (born 28 January 1962) is a South African billionaire businessman and football administrator.

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Pieter Groenewald

Petrus Johannes "Pieter" Groenewald (born 27 August 1955) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Minister of Correctional Services since July 2024.

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Presidency of Jacob Zuma

Jacob Zuma's tenure as South Africa's fourth post-apartheid president began on 9 May 2009 and ended on 14 February 2018.

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Qualifying Small Enterprises

Qualifying Small Enterprises (QSEs) are part of one of the categories of South African businesses as per the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. Black Economic Empowerment and Qualifying Small Enterprises are Black economic empowerment.

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Quotaism

Quotaism is the concept of organizing society by a quota system, whether by racial, gender, language or another demographic attribute. Black Economic Empowerment and Quotaism are affirmative action and politics and race.

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Race (human categorization)

Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

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Racial discrimination

Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their race, ancestry, ethnicity, and/or skin color and hair texture.

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Reconstruction and Development Programme

Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was a South African socio-economic policy framework implemented by the African National Congress (ANC) government of Nelson Mandela in 1994 after months of discussions, consultations and negotiations between the ANC, its Alliance partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party, and "mass organisations in the wider civil society".

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Reverse racism

Reverse racism, sometimes referred to as reverse discrimination, is the concept that affirmative action and similar color-conscious programs for redressing racial inequality are forms of anti-white racism.

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Saki Macozoma

Sakumzi Justice Macozoma (Saki) (born 1957) is a South African former political prisoner who is now one of South Africa's most prominent businessman and a leader in civil society.

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Skills Development Act, 1998

The Skills Development Act 97 of 1998 is a law enacted in South Africa in 1998.

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Socioeconomics

Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.

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South African Institute of Race Relations

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is a research and policy organisation in South Africa.

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South African nationality law

South African nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of South Africa. Black Economic Empowerment and South African nationality law are law of South Africa.

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Special-purpose entity

A special-purpose entity (SPE; or, in Europe and India, special-purpose vehicle/SPV; or, in some cases in each EU jurisdiction, FVC, financial vehicle corporation) is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives.

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Startup company

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.

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State capture

State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.

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State-owned enterprises of South Africa

In South Africa the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors.

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Sustainable procurement

Sustainable procurement or green procurement is a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, therefore benefiting societies and the environment across time and geographies.

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Tenderpreneur

In South Africa, a tenderpreneur is a person in government or the private sector who obtains private or government tenders and contracts to facilitate outsourced services.

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Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the 2nd democratic president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC).

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Tokenism

Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context. Black Economic Empowerment and Tokenism are affirmative action and politics and race.

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Tokyo Sexwale

Mosima Gabriel "Tokyo" Sexwale (born March 5, 1953) is a South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former political prisoner.

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Vrede Dairy Project

The Vrede Dairy Project is a South African dairy project established in 2012 on Krynaauwslust Farm, near the town of Vrede (Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality), Free State Province.

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Wealth inequality in South Africa

According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world.

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Werksmans

Werksmans Attorneys is a South African law firm with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Stellenbosch.

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Zondo Commission

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, better known as the Zondo Commission or State Capture Commission, was a public inquiry established in January 2018 by former President Jacob Zuma to investigate allegations of state capture, corruption, and fraud in the public sector in South Africa.

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1994 South African general election

General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994.

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1997 Asian financial crisis

The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s.

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50th National Conference of the African National Congress

The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) took place from 16 to 20 December 1997 at the University of the North West in what was then called Mafikeng.

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51st National Conference of the African National Congress

The 51st National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, from 16 to 20 December 2002, during the ANC's 90th anniversary.

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See also

1994 establishments in South Africa

• AFDA, The School for the Creative Economy
• Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party
• Africa Muslim Party
• Afrikanerbond
• Als Puk Tawana
• Bambata (musical project)
• Battery 9
• Black Economic Empowerment
• Cabinet of Nelson Mandela
• Cape Muslim Congress
• Defence Intelligence Division (SANDF)
• Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
• Dobsonville Shopping Centre
• Eastern Cape
• Flag of South Africa
• Free State (province)
• Freedom Day (South Africa)
• Freedom Front Plus
• Gauteng
• Great Fish River Nature Reserve
• Grindrod Bank
• Joyous Celebration
• Keep It Straight and Simple Party
• Kick Off (magazine)
• KwaZulu-Natal
• Leader of Government Business (South Africa)
• Limpopo
• Mpumalanga
• North West (South African province)
• Northern Cape
• Presidency of Nelson Mandela
• President of South Africa
• Pro Arte Alphen Park
• Rabali Blackpool
• Senate of South Africa
• Softball South Africa
• South African Human Rights Commission
• South African Institute for Heritage Science and Conservation
• South African Petroleum Industry Association
• South African Secret Service
• SuperSport United F.C.
• The Bassline (club)
• The Peninsula Times
• Unitas Medal
• Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa
• Western Cape
• Yeshiva of Cape Town

2004 establishments in South Africa

• African Leadership Academy
• AngloGold Ashanti
• Black Economic Empowerment
• Cape Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology
• Diocese of Mpumalanga
• Freedom Cup
• Garankuwa United F.C.
• Kabelo Secondary School
• Nelson Mandela Square
• North-West University
• Pro-death Penalty Party (South Africa)
• Protea Banks Marine Protected Area
• Second Cabinet of Thabo Mbeki
• Statue of Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg
• Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area
• Taxi Violence
• The Independent Institute of Education
• Top Billing (magazine)
• Tshwane University of Technology
• UShaka Marine World
• Ungana-Afrika
• United Christian Democratic Party
• University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Weg!
• Wrapped (magazine)

Affirmative action

• Affirmative action
• All-women shortlist
• Black Economic Empowerment
• Coate–Loury model
• Cultural backwardness
• Differential Education Achievement
• Diversity (business)
• Diversity (politics)
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Equality of autonomy
• Equality of outcome
• Finkbeiner test
• Inclusion rider
• Individual and group rights
• International Association for Feminist Economics
• Libertarian perspectives on affirmative action
• MacBride Principles
• Meritocracy
• Minority rights
• Negative and positive rights
• Positive action
• Principle-policy puzzle
• Quota system of Bangladesh Civil Service
• Quotaism
• Racial quota
• Reservation in India
• Reserved political positions
• Resistance to diversity efforts in organizations
• Reverse discrimination
• Social equity
• Socioeconomic decile
• Special measures for gender equality in the United Nations
• Special rights
• Statistext
• Tokenism
• Universal access to education
• Vestibular exam
• Xenocentrism

Black economic empowerment

• Black Economic Alliance
• Black Economic Empowerment
• Black Enterprise
• Brenthurst Initiative
• Exempted Micro Enterprises
• Good (political party)
• Qualifying Small Enterprises

Discrimination in South Africa

• 2019 Johannesburg riots
• Antisemitism in South Africa
• Apartheid
• Black Economic Empowerment
• Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in
• Killing of Nathaniel Julies
• Persecution of people with albinism
• Racism in South Africa
• The Aversion Project
• Wits Centre for Diversity Studies

Ethnic empowerment

• Black Economic Empowerment

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment

Also known as Affirmative action in South Africa, B-BBEE, BBBEE, BBEEE, Black Empowerment, Black-economic empowerment, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, Ownership Element, QSE Scorecard.

, Norton Rose Fulbright, Oligarchy, Parliament of South Africa, Patrice Motsepe, Pieter Groenewald, Presidency of Jacob Zuma, Qualifying Small Enterprises, Quotaism, Race (human categorization), Racial discrimination, Reconstruction and Development Programme, Reverse racism, Saki Macozoma, Skills Development Act, 1998, Socioeconomics, South African Institute of Race Relations, South African nationality law, Special-purpose entity, Startup company, State capture, State-owned enterprises of South Africa, Sustainable procurement, Tenderpreneur, Thabo Mbeki, Tokenism, Tokyo Sexwale, Vrede Dairy Project, Wealth inequality in South Africa, Werksmans, Zondo Commission, 1994 South African general election, 1997 Asian financial crisis, 50th National Conference of the African National Congress, 51st National Conference of the African National Congress.