DSDaryl Swanepoel

1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Daryl Swanepoel

   DARYL SWANEPOEL | Why BEE needs an outcomes-based sunset clause (opens the original)

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   More than three decades into democracy South Africa remains caught in an increasingly sterile argument about the future of race-conscious economic transformation. On one side are those who argue that 30 years is long enough. Apartheid ended in 1994, they contend and policies based explicitly on race should therefore now end. On the other are those who point to continuing racial disparities in ownership, wealth, management, skills, access to capital and economic opportunity as evidence that trans

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2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Daryl Swanepoel

   DARYL SWANEPOEL | We are measuring SA’s economic problems incorrectly (opens the original)

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   South Africa’s economic debate rests on a proposition that has become so familiar that we seldom interrogate it: the economy is growing too slowly. That is unquestionably true. But it may also be an incomplete diagnosis. Economic performance is generally discussed in terms of GDP growth, investment, employment creation and productivity. Population growth tends to sit somewhere else in the policy architecture, treated primarily as a demographic or social-policy consideration. But an economy does

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