{"id":36077,"date":"2013-04-18T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36077"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T07:36:26","slug":"whites-dominate-top-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/36077\/whites-dominate-top-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Whites dominate top positions: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whites still dominate South Africa’s top management positions, a report by the Employment Equity Commission<\/a> revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 13th edition of the report shows whites constituted 72.6 percent of top management positions in the country last year, down from 81.5 percent in 2002.<\/p>\n

The report reflects the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

Blacks occupied 12.3 percent of top management positions in 2012, compared to 10 percent in 2002.<\/p>\n

Commission chairman Dr Loyiso Mzisi Mbabane handed the report to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant<\/a> during a Transformation Indaba in Boksburg, on the East Rand.<\/p>\n

Coloureds occupied 4.6 percent of top management positions in 2012, compared to 3.4 percent in 2002; and In Indians 7.3 percent, from five percent.<\/p>\n

The number of foreigners in top management positions in 2012 was 3.1 percent, compared to zero in 2002.<\/p>\n

However, this was because the labour department started collecting this data only in 2006.<\/p>\n

Mbabane expressed disappointment at the levels of transformation.<\/p>\n

“It is unacceptable. This is not what you would expect, especially because we have a law,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If we did not have a law like the Employment Equity Act of 1998, you could say people are trying their luck and they are not understanding it, but you have a law that says specifically you must have a [employment equity] plan.”.<\/p>\n

The government had expected companies to be planning to have put into effect their employment equity plans by 2000.<\/p>\n

“The two percent increase in black people occupying top management positions says that either we don’t take those [employment equity] plans seriously, or we never took the act seriously. It is not acceptable,” said Mbabane.<\/p>\n

The report was compiled by the Employment Equity Commission using millions of employment equity reports from the public sector and private companies across all sectors of the South African economy.<\/p>\n

More on employment equity<\/h3>\n

White men in Joburg earn the most in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

White versus Black salaries in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Telkom explains \u2018no white-owned businesses\u2019 tenders<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

ICT sector BEE transformation policy weak \u2013 ANC<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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