South Africans Want Empowerment Policy Ended, Study Finds
Black South Africans account for more than 80% of the country’s 63 million people.
Photographer: Dwayne Senior/BloombergMore than half of South Africans want a key policy aimed at addressing racial inequality scrapped and hiring and promotions to be merit-based, according to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
The South African Reconciliation Barometer found that 54% of the country’s inhabitants agree that the so-called Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment rules should be phased out, the Cape Town-based institute said in a report published on its website. Two-thirds of South Africans think that the use of racial categories does more harm than good, the Cape Town-based IJR said.