Free SA condemns the Department of Employment and Labour’s recently gazetted Employment Equity sectoral targets as a misguided and unconstitutional attempt at demographic engineering. This policy will undermine economic growth, damage merit-based advancement, and erode the foundational principle of non-racialism enshrined in the Constitution.
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The Determination, which imposes rigid racial and gender quotas across eighteen sectors of the economy, lacks any transparent labour market analysis or evidence-based justification. It mandates that employers achieve arbitrary numerical targets, threatening businesses with penalties for non-compliance, and dangerously prioritises identity over competence.
The Department’s approach entrenches a system of new racial classification that stands in direct conflict with Section 1 of the Constitution, which lists non-racialism as a founding value.
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