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    An overview of the B-BBEE Act and its impact on black entrepreneurs in South Africa
    (Romanian Cultural Foundation, 2020-09-06) Mbandlwa, Zamokuhle; Anwana, Emem O.
    The South African government has introduced many policies that are aimed at addressing the imbalances of the past. The apartheid government policy was declared as a crime against humanity by the World Health Organization and various democratic institutions around the world. The current government had to balance the economy by giving more advantages to black people, black youth, people living with disabilities and women. The government was not prepared enough to transform the economy because policies did not represent the majority of blacks in South Africa. The B-BBEE policy has failed to deliver the economy to the majority of black people in South Africa. Only a few individuals and elite have benefitted from the system, whilst the majority of blacks are still living under the same economic conditions that they were subjected to during apartheid. The objectives of this study are primarily to present an overview of how B-BBEE has failed to transform the economy and failed to reverse the economic injustices of the apartheid regime. People who are benefitting are not entrepreneurs but tenderpreneurs who are in the business of exploiting resources for their own wealth, with no interest in economically equipping the majority of blacks. Tenderpreneurs are worse than the apartheid government that employed people who are performing the same services for the government on behalf of tenderpreneurs. Employees of tenderpreneurs are underpaid and work under unfavorable conditions. Additionally, this study presents black representability in senior private and parastatal institutions. This study applied a desktop research methodology to unpack previous studies, conference papers, newspaper reports and parliamentary findings relevant to the investigation. This paper found that various economic experts have identified several loopholes in the B-BBEE policy and several policy reviews have been conducted with no success.
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    The challenges of developing small tourism enterprises in townships: case of Umlazi, South Africa
    (Business Perspectives, 2016) Chili, Nsizwazikhona Simon; Mabaso, Simiso Lindokuhle
    Township tourism in South Africa has grown in popularity since 1994 and is considered by some researchers to be an appropriate mechanism for stimulating local economic development. Opportunities for the development of black-owned enterprises in South Africa began for the first time when the country integrated into the global tourism economy after many years of international sanctions. The growth of township tourism thus can provide the context for potential economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs to enter the business, an activity that traditionally has been the domain of established white South African entrepreneurs. The main objective of the study is to present findings on the challenges that face a certain group of small tourism enterprises in townships with more attention being specifically paid to Umlazi as the second biggest township in the Southern hemisphere. The main reason for the choice of the study is due to the fact that there is only a limited literature that explores the conditions of small-scale and informal tourism entrepreneurs operating in South Africa’s black townships. The focus falls upon the challenges of developing small tourism entrepreneurs for black owners in the township, especially because, South African tourism industry is highly concentrated and dominated by small elite group of large, mostly locally owned, tourism organizations which drive the tourism economy that unfortunately excludes and sidelines that of the townships.