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[TOP STORY] Concerns that new employment equity targets won’t benefit majority

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‘Government is supposed to use the majority and come with legislation that is reversing the imbalances of the past, but the way they are trying to be too accommodative to the minorities and those who have benefitted from the past, it's not going to help anyone,’ says Kganki Matabane, CEO of the Black Business Council.

5 Feb 2024 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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