For instance, the Industrial Development Corporation, IDC, for the past five years, approved finance to Black Economic Empowerment, BEE, empowered companies of R40 billion and supported many black South Africans as shareholders.
The IDC has committed a further R25 billion to the Black Industrialist Programme, R5,2 billion to youth empowered enterprises and a further R9,6 billion to women empowered enterprises. This is what the DA and other political parties are opposed to but are disguising it as a promotion of equal opportunities for all whereas we know that the foundation from which we all start building can never be equal.
The same applies to opposition towards employment equity where our intention is to achieve equity in the workplace by promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment to the elimination of unfair practices. The workplace is still reflecting the old apartheid days because those who are in control of the economy refuse transformation with all their might and their getting political support from the