Anthea Jeffery: New BEE rules = “demographic” quotas for company management
By Anthea Jeffery*
The Government has long been trying to impose the use of national demographics in the setting of racial targets under the Employment Equity Act of 1998 (the EE Act). Now it seems quietly to have achieved this goal via the revised black economic empowerment (BEE) codes of good practice that took effect on 1st May 2015.