{"id":840157,"date":"2025-04-09T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/affirmative-action-is-bbbee-still-a-means-for-ensuring-racial-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:12:15","slug":"affirmative-action-is-bbbee-still-a-means-for-ensuring-racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/affirmative-action-is-bbbee-still-a-means-for-ensuring-racial-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action | Is BBBEE still a means for ensuring racial justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Is Affirmative Action still a means for ensuring racial justice and the protection of human rights?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was the critical discussion during a dialogue held by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>WATCH | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/discussion-calls-grow-overhaul-b-bbee-compliance-certificates\"><span><strong>Discussion | Calls grow to overhaul B-BBEE compliance certificates<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The US has used South Africa&#8217;s policies on land and economic transformation to reinforce a narrative that these actions are motivated by racial hostility towards white minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The dialogue looked at policies promoting racial justice which align with the global push for a more equitable society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><strong>eNCA Senior reporter, Silindelo Masikane filed the story.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> eNCA<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/affirmative-action-bbbee-still-means-ensuring-racial-justice\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Is Affirmative Action still a means for ensuring racial justice and the protection of human rights? This was the critical discussion during a dialogue held by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. WATCH | Discussion | Calls grow to overhaul B-BBEE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2258,123639],"tags":[6477,123638],"class_list":{"0":"post-840157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-action","8":"category-affirmative","9":"tag-action","10":"tag-affirmative"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}