I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Employment Equity Commission has just released its 11th report on employment equity in South Africa, which indicates that racism continues to be one of the greatest influences on the slow pace of transformation in the workplace in South Africa; 2) also notes that the report reveals that very little has changed in the top four levels of management in the private sector, with whites taking 73% of top management positions last year and Africans holding only 12,7% of top management jobs, coloureds 4,6% and Indians 6,8%;
3) further notes the concerns raised by the report that although over the past four years the number of black top managers had risen by only 1,4 per cent, the indication is that at the current rate of transformation, it will take another 127 years for blacks to be in top management positions, proportional to the population, and another 32 years for transformation to happen in senior management; and
4) takes this opportunity to express its profound disappointment at the slow pace of transformation in the private sector and supports the call made by the Minister of Labour to ensure stringent measures to force private companies to transform and implement the Employment Equity Act, which already allows government to fine anyone who flouts it by up to R900 000.