DUMA GQUBULE: Time for quotas to chisel away rock of institutional racism

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New report shows private sector has made little or no progress with employment equity in a decade 🔒

Five years ago a large JSE-listed company asked me to help it develop an employment equity strategy. It soon became clear that this would be a difficult assignment. The first thing I noticed was the underrepresentation of black women. When I interviewed the head of human resources, she replied: “African women think this is a glamorous job.”

After interviewing many people in focus groups I went to the board subcommittee, which included the CEO and COO, with a long report that told a story of institutional racism within the company. But it was also clear that this was just one symptom of deeper rot and a toxic culture. It was such a traumatic experience I decided never to do such work again. Later, a private equity team took over the company and fired the CEO and COO...

 

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Read the Skills Development stats of any big bank…you'll see why these issues persist.

I was referred to him by a friend online and I thought is a scam ...but I was moved to try and here I earned.. just want to share this to people too. Micheal_addy_

My first experience happens to be a failure but i never gave up cause i knew it was going to work out for me trying continuously, fortunately i'm smiling today by getting involved with peterniecy

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