Enforcing employment equity race quotas sabotages South Africa’s economic growth

Enforcing employment equity race quotas sabotages South Africa’s economic growth

The government’s racial obsessions enjoy little public support. South Africans need to see more investment, more jobs and more opportunity – not less. Race-based hiring targets may serve a short-term ideological goal, but the long-term damage is real and measurable.

Enforcing employment equity race quotas sabotages SA’s economic growth - Daily Maverick

The country is already battling economic stagnation, weakening institutions and political fragmentation. Forcing race quotas in the labour market is not a solution. It is another step in the wrong direction.