Radical racial transformation in South Africa has already happened: IRR
The Institute of Race Relations has released its transformation audit, showing that the South African workplace had already undergone radical racial transformation despite critics saying otherwise.
The institute specifically pointed to critics who claimed there was’ jobless growth’ and that the labour market was biased against black people as “factually incorrect”.
According to the report, close to 11.5 million black South Africans currently had a job in 2016 – an increase of over 100% compared to the 5 million working black South Africans in 1994.
It also indicated massive transformation in management positions, with the number of black South Africans being employed in management by up 176.3% since 2001.
“If transformation is said to be ‘held back’‚ that would be primarily because of failures in education and not a lack of will‚”said the IRR’s chief operating officer‚ Gwen Ngwenya to Times Live.
She noted that while black South Africans accounted for 80.7% of the population‚ they constituted only 51.4% of all people with a post-matric qualification.
“Putting in place targets beyond the available pool of skills places an unrealisable goal for employers and will strangle South Africa’s economic growth rate,” she said.
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