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Governance And Politics In Africa



In mid 2006, ANC in South Africa discovered that five of its senior officials had become billionaires and accounted for 70% of Black Economic Empowerment deals in 2005. 

Efforts were made to control this, e.g. by limiting the number of opportunities for benefiting from “previously disadvantaged status” to one, as advocated by the ANC Secretary General) and to broaden the impacts of empowerment impacts (Sunday Times 6/8/2006:1).


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