{"id":13109,"date":"2025-10-21T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-yet-to-see-opposition-partys-calls-to-scrap-black-economic-empowerment-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:12","slug":"sa-president-yet-to-see-opposition-partys-calls-to-scrap-black-economic-empowerment-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-yet-to-see-opposition-partys-calls-to-scrap-black-economic-empowerment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President yet to see opposition party\u2019s calls to scrap Black Economic Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This comes as the DA called for BEE to be scrapped, labelling it a \u201cvehicle for state-sponsored corruption\u201d and a failure in addressing the country\u2019s deep-rooted inequality. Ramaphosa says that BEE is rooted in the Constitution and anyone wanting to amend this legislation must go through the necessary parliamentary processes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cCurrently we have a bee policy, a bee policy that is rooted and underpinned by our constitution, and the laws that we have passed. so if anyone wants an amendment to the bee legislation, they must table their proposals, they must be taken for discussion in parliament, and at the moment the bee policies, legislation, regulations as they stand, apply without any dilution whatsoever,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2013SABC\u2013<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13110,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78],"class_list":["post-13109","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has not yet seen the Democratic Alliance (DA) party\u2019s proposal to scrap Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and replace it with the Economic Inclusion for All Bill||South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has not yet seen the Democratic Alliance (DA) party\u2019s proposal to scrap Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and replace it with the Economic Inclusion for All Bill","published_date":"2025-10-21 00:00:00||2025-10-21 00:00:00","news_description":"South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has not yet seen the Democratic Alliance (DA) party\u2019s proposal to scrap Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and replace it with the Economic Inclusion for All Bill||South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has not yet seen the Democratic Alliance (DA) party\u2019s proposal to scrap Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and replace it with the Economic Inclusion for All Bill","form_embed":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-yet-to-see-opposition-partys-calls-to-scrap-black-economic-empowerment\/||http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-yet-to-see-opposition-partys-calls-to-scrap-black-economic-empowerment\/","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18385,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13109\/revisions\/18385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}