BEE Built Billionaires, Not an Economy!

South Africa’s former empowerment model is now strangling growth.
In this episode unpack how Black Economic Empowerment began as a corporate self-defense move and why it’s now killing entrepreneurship and efficiency.

We trace the roots of BEE from 1990 through the mining economy, the fall of communism, and how political elites turned it into a billion-rand patronage system.
The numbers are clear: 50% unemployment, collapsing SMEs, and a government paying 25% more for everything it buys.

It’s time for a reset from race-based compliance to real black entrepreneurship.

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