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BEE - Again

Posted by: adw
Date: 8/29/2004 3:52:33 AM

I am a female owner of a business with 120 employees (all black), with 12 in an management/ supervisory role. This is not good enough though. I now after 10 years of slogging to get my company off the grounnd have to offer shares/ ownership to a BEE candidate or lose all my clients. It infuriates me that I will lose these clients through no fault of my own, but through companies telling me they cannot give business to white owned businesses. None of my staff can afford to purchase shares in the company, or are prepared to take the risk of applying for a loan and I therefore either have to give away a % for free, or bring in someone who I do not know from a bar of soap just to be able to continue to work. In addition to this argument we can progress to WHAT ABOUT FEMALE EMPOWERMENT - I may be white, but the last time I looked I was female. The goverment keeps going on about female empowerment, but my clients opinion is that BEE comes before female, and therefore gender is of no consequence.

DO or DIE seems to be the order of the day!!!!!

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