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Call for transformation: Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi acknowledged that black legal practitioners continue to be sidelined and denied fair business opportunities with government. Photo: DOJ

Dearth of State briefing; death of black legal practice

Discriminatory procurement practices keep black law firms small, while many black advocates are forced to leave the Bar. LPC statistics for 2024 show that the largest majority…

Questionable: Members of AfriForum and Solidarity met with US President Donald Trump’s administration last year. The consequences took the form of economic pressure. Photo: AfrForum/X

Charge AfriForum, Solidariteit over white ‘genocide’ hoax

When actors within a state engage with a foreign power and that engagement produces economic pressure on the state, the law must determine how such conduct is understood

Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage. (Getty Images)

The legal sector code is a tool for substantive equality in SA’s legal profession

Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage

What empowerment? Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe argues transformation of the mining sector has been ineffective. Although the majority of mineworkers (above) are black people, this is not reflected in mine ownership. (Madelene Cronjé)

Once empowered, always empowered: Does the mining charter judgment rule out transformation?

Given the slow pace of change in mining and other sectors, some analysts have raised concerns that the ruling will cause empowerment efforts to unravel

This time seems different: A Black Lives Matter mural on a street in Brooklyn, New York, during protests against racism after the killing of George Floyd. (Photo: AFP)

Black Lives Matter: The South African economy’s unfinished business

Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it

The DA could be a great example of a political party that transforms gradually to embody the true character of the nation in the elections leading to 2029.

Transformation strides put DA at a crossroads

The Democratic Alliance will either splinter or it will unite and reflect South Africa’s diversity

ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe. (Oupa Nkosi)

Mantashe releases Mining Charter of compromises

The Mining Charter has focused on empowerment targets and benefits for mining communities

Black economic empowerment was one of the measures intended to address the racialised inequality in South Africa (Reuters)

Has BEE been a dismal failure?

Black economic empowerment law cannot be removed until there are real changes in equality, says the commission

BEE has also been a source of fierce contestation within the party. (Skyler Reid/M&G)

DA federal council ditches BEE calling it unsustainable

The DA’s federal council has decided to ditch black economic empowerment, claiming the policy is “just not working.”

An entrepreneurship sub-committee on the Human Resources Development Council reports to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Motlanthe: Persistent inequality threatens SA’s peace

At the M&G’s 20 years of economic transformation summit, Kgalema Motlanthe says while poverty has declined, inequality in the workplace has not.

Zille rejects equity quotas as ‘Verwoerdian measures’

Addressing economic equality legislation, Helen Zille has spoken out against coercive equity quotas, which she says the DA shouldn’t support.

The great ownership debate

The financial sector faces a legal quandary, writes Maya Fisher-French.