ANC: Affirmative Action To Decline
You read that headline right, I almost spat out my mid-morning sarmie on reading this story:
Affirmative action will decline, predicts ANCAffirmative action is not here to stay – that is if the African National Congress is to be believed.
Although the party does not moot a sunset clause for the policy, it does acknowledge in its draft strategy and tactics document that the need for affirmative action “will decline in the same measure as all centres of power and influence become broadly representative of the country’s demographics”.
I was getting all excited till I got to that last sentence. So basically as the representation of people in the formal economy begins to represent the makeup of the population the need for affirmative action will disappear. Which is basically a statement saying nothing much is going to change at the moment considering some areas of the formal economy. How many black CA’s do we have in SA? More than 500?. It seems AA will be around for a while longer.