CALL FOR WHITE WOMEN TO BOW OUT OF EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

Here we go again! Throughout the ages women have been discriminated against. Black women, white women, yellow women, red women and if we had pink and/or green women - they too would have been discriminated against.

Now in the name of discrimination - the BMF have suggested that 'white women' should no longer qualfiy as 'previously disadvantaged'. This has nothing to do with anything other than being blantantly racist! It's really time now to call things as they really are and we have now gone full circle - South Africa has once again become a nation of racists.

Quite frankly I am appalled!


Call for white women to bow out of employment equity
Cape Town, South Africa
04 September 2007 03:11

White women should be struck off a list of groups recognised as previously disadvantaged in terms of the employment equity legislation, the Black Management Forum (BMF) said on Tuesday. In its written submission to the National Assembly's portfolio committee on labour, the forum requested that the current employment equity legislation be amended to exclude white women as beneficiaries. "We ... assert that white women bow out of employment equity and that this committee help institute amendments to the Employment Equity Act through a sunset clause [a provision that ends a power or programme] for white women," it read.

This would help re-focus targeting people with disabilities, black people and, in particular, black women, the organisation said. Two months ago, Employment Equity Commission chairperson Jimmy Manyi suggested that white women, whom he said had surpassed their employment equity targets, should have their status reviewed. He accused white business of trying to conceal their un-transformed employment profile by employing more white women into management positions. According to Manyi, white women held almost 15% of the executive positions in 4 380 companies surveyed. Kezia Lewins, a labour expert from the University of the Witwatersrand, on Tuesday said recent data showed a significant increase in the number of white women appointed to senior management positions. "Especially since 2006, there was not only a large increase in the number of white women but also white men," she said while briefing the committee.

According to statistics she presented to the committee, there were approximately three white females for every single African woman in senior management. Committee chairperson Rebecca Kasienyane said the committee, which was conducting hearings on workplace discrimination, would make recommendations to Parliament. Two weeks ago, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said white women were discriminated against in the old dispensation. -- Sapa