Zuma appoints members of BBBEE Advisory Council (back then Dec 2009)

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I remember the call from Mzwandile.  My thinking at the time was why is there so little business and white representation.  BEE in its initial guise was to transform the economy.  This was bullshit.  It remains bullshit.  BEE is there to disadvantage non-black (read white and multi-national owned) businesses in state tenders.  It got worst under bolshie bob - then it became a punishment.

You need more white business people on this council (if it still exists) because they are the ones left with the implementation of BEE in the main.  They'll tell you what works and what doesn't work.  

What value is Zungu going to add?  He's made, and continues to make, a fortune from his blackness, which is well connected.  All he would do is make BEE more difficult so that his businesses can take everything.

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Caird logo - no contact details with byline3 (May 08) I just got a call from Mzwandile Jacks telling me about the BEE Advisory Council that's just been announced.  This is what it looks like

  1. Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies.
  2. Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana
  3. Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel
  4. Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya.
  5. Professor Mohammed I. Jahed, professor of macro-economic policy, economics and public finance at the Wits University Graduate School of Public and Development Management.
  6. Prof Eltie Links, a professor extraordinaire at University of Stellenbosch Business School
  7. Wendy Lucas-Bull, a businesswoman and the founder of Peotona Group Holdings
  8. Andile Lungisa, Chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency
  9.  Sebenzile Matsebula, an independent consultant and former Director in the Office on the Status of Disabled Persons in the Presidency
  10. Jerry Vilakazi, chief executive officer of Business Unity South Africa
  11. Dumisani Mthalane, a member of the National Working Committee of the South African National Civics Organisation
  12. Ellen Tshabalala, a business and management consultant with expertise in small, medium and micro-sized enterprises development, banking and marketing.
  13. Adv Matshego Ramagaga, Vice-President of Black Lawyers Association
  14. Tsakani Matshazi, President of the Association of Black Accountants and Vice-President of the Confederation of Black Business Organisations
  15. Sidumo Dlamini, President of the Congress of South African Trade Unions
  16. Sandile Zungu, businessman with extensive experience having served in various companies at a senior level including NAIL and Denel.
  17. Don Mkhwanazi, a former president of the Black Management Forum
  18. Dr Claudia Manning, businesswoman
  19. Chantyl Mulder, senior executive for transformation and growth at the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants, who has served as facilitator of the BEE Charter process amongst other work on economic transformation.

It's the required 19 people with the exeception of the President who is required in terms of section 6(a) of the BEE Act.  I wonder if this will have an impact on the legitimacy of the council.

I would have liked to see more business representation.


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