Mashaba calls for scrapping of BBBEE, wants labour law review
Updated | By Neo Motloung
Former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba says his political party Action SA wants a review of what he calls the country’s rigid labour laws.
It also wasn’t to scrap the government’s BBBEE policy.
Mashaba held a virtual media briefing on Tuesday morning, where the former major of Johannesburg tabled the party's Covid-19 economic recovery plan.
Mashaba said the current labour laws need to be reviewed as they favour those who are already employed.
"And 59 % of young people are unemployed in South Africa today, the labour laws of our country makes it hard to help South Africans at a time we need to make it easier.
"They protect those who are employed for now on the expense of those who could be employed but they are not.
"It is a crime in South African that millions of people live without the dignity of work while out labour laws discourage small businesses from hiring more of our people.”
Mashaba believes the review of the country’s labour laws would encourage small businesses to hire more South Africans.
He also wants the country’s “failed BBBEE policy to be scrapped and thrown into the rubbish bin of our history”.
"In its place must be a set of policies that incentive redressing the legacy of our past rather than the malicious compliance to failed policies that we see today," Mashaba said.
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Mashaba said the party will do what other opposition parties have failed to do and unseat the ANC. "The opposition has failed in South Africa because they lack broad appeal and they have not offered a viable prospect of unseating the ANC. "We will change this.
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