South Africa Needs Growth, Inclusion, and Competitiveness — Not Failed Policies Repackaged
The proposed 2026 amendments to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes represent a continuation — and intensification — of an economic policy framework that has failed to deliver inclusive growth, job creation, or competitiveness for South Africa.
These draft regulations are rooted in outdated economic thinking, expand compliance burdens, centralise control, and further entrench race-based economic engineering at a time when South Africa urgently needs investment, innovation, and growth. Instead of broadening participation in the economy, the proposed framework narrows opportunity, deters entrepreneurship, and weakens South Africa’s ability to compete globally.
Free SA believes that true empowerment comes from economic growth, equal opportunity, skills development, and open markets, not coercive scorecards and state-managed redistribution.
This campaign calls on South Africans to reject the draft BEE regulations in principle and in substance, and to demand a modern, inclusive, growth-oriented alternative.
Make Your Voice Count — Official Public Comment
Key concerns:
Free SA calls for a fundamental shift in economic policy, including:
South Africa does not need more regulation, it needs more opportunity.
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