{"id":46459,"date":"2026-01-02T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=46459"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:00:30","slug":"white-people-hate-bee-because-it-makes-black-people-owners-gwede-mantashe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/02\/white-people-hate-bee-because-it-makes-black-people-owners-gwede-mantashe\/","title":{"rendered":"White people hate BEE because it makes black people owners \u2013 Gwede Mantashe \u2013 Newsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, argues that anyone who debates black economic empowerment (BEE) promotes white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Mantashe shared his views on black economic empowerment during a discussion on Newzroom Africa about the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p>He said that under the Apartheid government, black people were seen as instruments in mining rather than as employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not regarded as humans at the time. We were not regarded as employees. We were not regarded as people who could participate in the economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said BEE has opened up the space for innovative black South Africans to be owners in the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoal mining is 80% owned and managed by black South Africans. More than 50% of manganese mining is owned and managed by black people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that although platinum group metal (PGM) mining is majority-owned by others, black South Africans manage this sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who opens a debate about BEE today is promoting white supremacy,\u201d Mantashe said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>He added that white dominated parties, like the Freedom Front Plus and the Democratic Alliance, hate black economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hate BEE because it is changing what they were built on. They are dependent on white capacity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that black economic empowerment enabled black people to become owners, executives, and managers at South African companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who promote white supremacy and regard blacks as inherently inferior hate black economic empowerment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the DA announced a new bill that would replace BEE with a new system for public procurement.<\/p>\n<p>The party argued that BEE has not fulfilled its mandate and has failed to uplift poor black South Africans. Matthew Cuthbert, the DA\u2019s head of policy, said that \u201cANC economic policies have left South Africans unemployed and poor. This is not the inclusive country that we envisioned building in 1994.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BEE is not pro-black and anti-white \u2013 IRR<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-people-hate-BEE-because-it-makes-black-people-owners.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-people-hate-BEE-because-it-makes-black-people-owners.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Ansara-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Ansara-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Ansara-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Free Market Foundation CEO David Ansara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Institute of Race Relations (IRR) Fellow Gabriel Crouse argues that BEE will survive for as long as the idea persists that the policy is pro-black and anti-white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at how BEE actually works, you will stop thinking that it\u2019s anti-white and pro-black. BEE will survive for as long as that message does not get out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen BEE is advertised as pro-black and anti-white, it will retain enough political relevance and political popularity to survive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It will survive despite having been so terribly damaging to people from all groups, directly and indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>Crouse said black economic empowerment cuts against everyone, not just because of second-order effects but directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has already been used against people from every single group, so you will confront a clear and present danger to our rainbow republic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said even people who realise the devastating effect of BEE continue to support it because they think they belong to one race group that is a special victim.<\/p>\n<p>He referenced the new employment equity targets, which require businesses to classify their staff based on their race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRefusing racial classification at work is a matter of being a South African who sees the system is stupid, counterproductive, and undignified,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Free Market Foundation CEO David Ansara said that BEE is one of South Africa\u2019s most highly contested policies, affecting all areas of the economy and society.<\/p>\n<p>He said BEE costs the South African economy approximately R290 billion per year. This translates to a total of R5 trillion in lost economic activity since the policy\u2019s inception.<\/p>\n<p>Ansara added that black poverty has worsened during the period when black economic empowerment has been at its strongest.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that black economic empowerment only enriches a small group of politically connected elites. \u201cThis is a feature, not a bug of the policy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center border p-3 bg-light mt-4 rounded\">You have read 1 out of 5 free articles. Log in or register for unlimited access.<\/div>\n<p>                        <!-- Share Data Setup for JavaScript --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#White #people #hate #BEE #black #people #owners #Gwede #Mantashe #Newsday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, argues that anyone who debates black economic empowerment (BEE) promotes white supremacy.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46461,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459\/revisions\/46461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}