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@sandileswana But why don't we channel most of our energies towards starting Black owned businesses to rapidly absorb the "80.7% of the economically active population" instead of expecting the less than 10% to do so as this could be the best solution to redress the imbalances of the past?

Since the transition to democracy in 1994, black professionals and managers in South Africa have continued to report significant experiences of negative discrimination regarding promotions and salaries, despite legislative frameworks like the Employment Equity Act designed to redress these imbalances. Promotion and Career Advancement Barriers Persistent Under-representation: Despite a growing number of black graduates, white professionals remain over-represented in top management positions. As of recent years, Africans accounted for only 17.2% of top management despite making up 80.7% of the economically active population. Dual Challenges for Black Women: Black women face a "dual challenge" of race and gender discrimination. Early post-apartheid data indicated a white male was 5,000 times more likely to hold a top management position than an African woman. "Glass Ceilings" and Tokenism: Many black managers report being hired as "token" employees without real decision-making authority or being passed over for promotions in favour of less experienced white counterparts. Lack of Mentorship: A shortage of black mentors and a lack of organizational commitment to developing black talent often result in black professionals leaving the corporate sector due to neglected career aspirations. Salary and Wage Disparities Widening Wage Gap: While racial wage gaps declined near the end of apartheid, they unexpectedly increased immediately after 1994, only beginning to reverse around 2005. Research indicates that skilled white men still dominate high-paying occupations. Unequal Pay for Equal Work: Cases brought before the Labour Court highlight ongoing allegations of black employees being paid less than white colleagues for the same work, though proving race as the sole cause remains legally complex. Skills Premium vs. Discrimination: Some economists argue that while wage gaps remain high, they may be driven by a "skills premium" stemming from past educational backlogs rather than direct current discrimination. Workplace Culture and Subtle Racism Subtle Racism: Black professionals often navigate "white-dominated" environments where they experience subtle racism, stereotypes, and the emotional toll of being a numerical minority. Code-Switching: To fit into existing corporate cultures, many black professionals adopt code-switching strategies to navigate white power structures. Work Stress: Black managers often report high stress due to "role conflict," acting as intermediaries between white management and black workers.

@SongezoZibi How much in rands are you talking about when you say 4.5% of total payouts because percentages have a way of minimizing/trivializing the real value?

There is no need to amend the constitution, just the Act ( I support). In any case, RAF is funded as a social benefit scheme but makes insurance-like payments. Even if you changed the law to exclude foreigners (4.5% of total payouts), the RAF is still hopelessly insolvent.

@Enghumbhini Even unions do not have the appetite to takeover businesses that are being closed by capitalists to run them the socialist way because they do not believe in their theories as they are only good on paper.

Ndzo hlaya ku pima: The SACP has an opportunity to convince South Africans that socialism is not some highfalutin idea, but an alternative to the neoliberalism currently on show in South Africa. Now is the time to prove the prophets of doom wrong. news24.com/opinions/colum…

@Worldfvze @penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA I'm not against regulations but I've observed a drop in standards across all sectors making me wonder what exactly is the role of these bodies besides collection of the yearly membership/licence fees?

@MthimbaniX @penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA Why don’t you want to be regulated? They exist and you know their functions and if you are against that, then say why and give your alternative to that.

Young Professionals, Teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Accountants etc. have to pay membership fees to professional bodies like SACE, HPCSA, LPC, ECSA and SAICA, even when they are UNEMPLOYED. The EFF is demanding parliamentary intervention to STOP this unjust practice!

@tumisole 🤣 so S17(1) must be amended to clearly state that "any person who is legally in the country", this is madness but I guess common sense is no longer common in South Africa.

Umthetho awuvumi! Firstly, if the law enforcement were to do that, they’ll open themselves up to being sued properly. Once they are involved in a serious motor vehicle accident, anywhere in Mzansi, they are eligible to claim from RAF. S17(1) of the RAF says: ‘the Fund shall ‘be obligated to compensate any person (third party) for any loss or damage which that person suffered as a result of any bodily injury to himself or herself or the death of or any bodily injury to any person, caused by or arising from the driving of a motor vehicle by any person at any place within the Republic, if the injury or death is due to the negligence or other wrongful act of the driver or the owner of the motor vehicle or of his or her employee in the performance of the employee’s duties as employee.’ Until the RAF Act is amended through a proper process, illegal immigrants involved in a motor vehicle accident will be eligible to claim from RAF. Read here our #CountryDuty article covering this: x.com/tumisole/statu…

@SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA These membership fees are actually license fees paid in order to get permission to work as a professional and to be punished by the same body if you make a mistake. Democracy is very expensive and brutal.

@Makiadi_ @OleleSalvador Where do you think we should "travel" to within the continent when people are running away from their own countries?

@OleleSalvador These South Africans are so backward. They don’t travel anywhere beyond their villages. What kind if thinking is this?

🚨ICYMI🇿🇦🇬🇭🗣️: A viral street confrontation video from South Africa shows activist Victoria Africa(Queen Vee), and a group of locals stopping and questioning a Ghanaian man + other African migrants about their travel documents. The footage has triggered intense online debate about xenophobia and migration. 📹: YouTube/Reality Street Talk 🦅🇬🇭

@_ghanaprince @OleleSalvador Talking about cutting your nose to spite your face.

I do not support any Ghanaian thar travels to other country and violate their laws. This guy is unpatriotic and selfish. However if South Africa wants to bring their Xenophobia on Ghanaians, they’re going to lose. If an African is in their country illegally, they should let their security forces deal with them, not civilians lynching them. Here are SA businesses operating in Ghana. We can close their offices quickly.

@Worldfvze @penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA Before I answer your questions, what makes you believe that these sectors need to be regulated and what tasks are they doing?

@MthimbaniX @penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA How would then regulate these sectors? Who would you put in place to do the tasks that they are doing? Suggest an alternative to their existence. Or suggest a funding model that can be adopted for their annual budget.

@PempheroMphande Lol, you people are really psychotic. I mean you leave 100% of your land to come and compete with South Africans for "30%" of the land and still want to blame us when we tell you to go back and develop your countries?

Xenophobic South Africans are the stupidest people in the world. People who are themselves victims of a deeply unequal system are turning on fellow Africans instead of confronting the structural injustices that still exclude them. Attacking and killing your black brothers and sisters from foreign countries will not fix an economy whose foundations remain unequal, will not take the 70% of privately held land from white people and place it in your lazy hands. Wake up. Kudos to all the awakened South Africans who know that foreign black people are not their enemy!

@Zwelinzima1 But what is the rationale behind pitting the poor against each other🤷🏾?

Because the government is left in peace when the poor turn against the poor

@Worldfvze @penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA You really bought into their scam if you believe that they are responsible for "high standard" and order in these sectors.

@penuelist_ @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA How are they scams? If you want low standards and anarchy in these sectors, get rid of them.

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 Lol, I asked you questions so you can think instead of regurgitating toxic ideologies that do not take us anywhere. I mean we allow them to control a large part of the country's production without being forced by being the consumers of almost everything. Make it make sense.

@MthimbaniX @Kane_GM9 Ask those in stellenbosch together with their anc cadres. They have the answers because they are the ones who still control a large part of the the country's production, together with apartheid apologists like you. ..

The good old days. When ANC crooks were still in Zambia and Robben island 😭😭

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 So who is responsible for the current suffering of the majority of South Africans, is it racists, colonialism/apartheid🤷🏾?

@MthimbaniX @Kane_GM9 Touche..... Fortunately I won't stoop to the level of trying to ingratiate with racists by using the suffering of the majority of South Africans. The idea that somehow there was any good from apartheid is appalling and it's a reflection of being poor understanding of politics

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 Unfortunately there is not much I can do about your inferiority complex as you seem to label any African who uses his mind as "true uncle Tom". Your lack of political consciousness is seen in your failure to answer my basic questions hence the need for continuous name calling.

@MthimbaniX @Kane_GM9 What the fuck is wrong with Limpopo? What do you by use to get employment? . So you truly believes apartheid was better. By employment you mean working for whites because Africans where not allowed to run any industries.... What a shame.. How old are you 2b this naive😕😔

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 Lol, yet you can be a doctor, engineer, pilot etc and still be unemployed today but I guess that is much much better according to you whereas people used to get employment without any qualifications and build homes and families. What has changed?

@MthimbaniX @Kane_GM9 In essence things are much much better than apartheid for the majority.... Nothing wrong with that that. Even though there is a scourge in corruption and unemployment and mant other Ills that still plague our country

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 Yet you don't even feel safe in your own home. Look at crime, corruption and unemployment, what do you think makes things much much better than apartheid for the majority?

@radipatanta @Kane_GM9 Lol, read your own comment and you realise that you are insinuating that things are now better according to you.

@MthimbaniX @Kane_GM9 What about it? Both can be true and I never said anything about things getting better for all.my issue is with a handful of fringe idiologues romanticizing about apartheid days..... Kak

@Dhokodho @Princymthombeni Your compatriot is trying to change this kind of attitude as you still do not see the link between an ID, national pride and patriotism.

@Princymthombeni As if your SA ID is a Degree in Robotics Engineering As if you have shares in Capitec Bank As if you chased Boers from Orania in SA As if you have a farm or even a small plot As if you can go into Shoprite, flash your ID at the till and they give you groceries As if you ...🥸🥸🥸

This Zimbabwean lady didn’t hold back. She told her fellow citizens scattered across the world that calling yourself “educated” while doing low-level work in other people’s countries isn’t exactly an achievement. And maybe it lands differently coming from one of their own, because if we say the same thing, suddenly it’s labeled xenophobia.

@Ngwenya_PJ @Princymthombeni @ntsikimazwai Your logic is not different from "when your house is on fire simply run away and find another place and build a new house" and this is the most illogical thing to do.

@Princymthombeni @ntsikimazwai Every country belongs only to those ruling it. It’s an illusion & a wet dream to think your country belongs to you. When the rulers mess things up get up & go somewhere else. The UN made the world a global village for that reason. Every country accommodates foreigners by LAW.